Meaning & use
hemorrhaging
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Bleeding heavily and uncontrollably, or, figuratively, losing something rapidly and in large amounts.
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The patient was hemorrhaging internally and needed emergency surgery.
The struggling company had been hemorrhaging money for over a year.
A note on using this word
Outside medicine, hemorrhaging is common in business and politics to describe a rapid, damaging loss, as in 'hemorrhaging customers' or 'hemorrhaging support.'
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