hemorrhage

1. 1.

   lose blood from one's body

   Synonymsshed bloodbleed

   Broaderexhaust

   Narrowermenstruate

Other forms of hemorrhage

plural

hemorrhages·

past tense

hemorrhaged·

present participle

hemorrhaging·

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 hemorrhage

What does hemorrhage mean?

hemorrhage means "the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hemorrhage?

hemorrhage has 3 syllables: hem-orr-hage. The stress falls on "hem". In IPA it is /ˈhɛmɚɪdʒ/.

What is another word for hemorrhage?

Close synonyms include bleeding, haemorrhage, shed blood, bleed. 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 hemorrhage a common word?

hemorrhage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.