1. excessive bleeding: the loss of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, either internally or externally a cerebral hemorrhage
2. uncontrolled loss: a large uncontrolled loss of something valuable a hemorrhage of cash that threatened the firm
verb (past and past participlehem·or·rhaged, present participlehem·or·rhag·ing, 3rd person present singularhem·or·rhag·es)
Definition:
1. intransitive verb bleed heavily: to bleed profusely and uncontrollably The wound was hemorrhaging badly.
2. transitive and intransitive verb lose something valuable: to experience a sudden, uncontrolled, and massive loss of something valuable The failed business had been hemorrhaging money for months.
[15th century. Via French or medieval Latin< Greek haimorrhagia< haima "blood" + rhēgnunai "break, burst"]
