English▸ noun an escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel:
a massive haemorrhage of the brain.
▪ a damaging loss of valuable people or resources:
a haemorrhage of highly qualified teachers.
▸ verb [no object] (of a person) suffer a haemorrhage:
he had begun haemorrhaging in the night.
▪ [with object] lose or expend large amounts of (something valuable) in a seemingly uncontrollable way:
the business was haemorrhaging cash.
– ORIGIN late 17th century (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.