Definition of "haemorrhage"

haemorrhage

/ˈhɛməɹɪd͡ʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural haemorrhages
1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
  Quotations
  Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi.
  2007 January 24, “China's Hu takes up case of dead reporter”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2023, World News‎
  Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.
  2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian‎
verb
third-person singular simple present haemorrhages, present participle haemorrhaging, simple past and past participle haemorrhaged
1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
  Quotations
  In the early 1980s, the UK was gripped by a recession. A newly elected Conservative government was never going to let BR haemorrhage money if it could help it.
  2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39