haemorrhage

Other forms of haemorrhage

plural

haemorrhages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about haemorrhage

What does haemorrhage mean?

haemorrhage means "the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel".

How many syllables are in haemorrhage?

haemorrhage has 4 syllables: ha-e-morr-hage. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for haemorrhage?

Close synonyms include bleeding, hemorrhage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haemorrhage a common word?

haemorrhage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.