Definition of "hemorrhage" []

• Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding. (noun)
• A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings. (noun)
• To bleed copiously. (verb-intransitive)
• To undergo a rapid and sudden loss: a gubernatorial candidate whose popularity hemorrhaged after a disastrous debate. (verb-intransitive)
• To lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity: The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Now, Johnson, a 61-year-old Democrat who battled back from a December 2006 brain hemorrhage, is running for re-election in a GOP-dominated state where President Bush won 60% of the vote in 2000 and 2004. 50"
• "Children's Hospital doctors, working with The Technology Dependence Center (TDC) team, diagnosed Connor with multiple medical problems, including an airway that was prone to collapse, underdeveloped lungs, a seizure disorder, severe gastric reflux, bilateral brain hemorrhage and developmental delays."
• "Five days later, it was discovered that he had a brain hemorrhage and will no longer be able to bobsled."