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May 23, 2025
This week’s themeBloody words! This week’s words bloody-minded anemia red-blooded hemorrhage ![]() ![]()
“Let’s brainstorm how to stop this hemorrhaging.”
Cartoon: Anu Garg + AI
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with Anu Garghemorrhage
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima (blood) +
rhegnunai (to burst). Earliest documented use: 1671.
NOTES:
Still craving more blood-related words after a whole week of
lexical bloodletting? Sink your teeth into a few more from our archives:
bloody shirt,
blood-and-guts, and, well,
bloodnoun :)
USAGE:
“Since 2011, as calls have grown more urgent to reduce the greenhouse
emissions that cause climate change, the industry has hemorrhaged
41,000 jobs.” Luis Feliz Leon; What’s the Future of Coal Mining?; Labor Notes (Detroit, Michigan); Sep 2021. See more usage examples of hemorrhage in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as
the body. -Margaret Fuller, author, critic, and women's rights advocate (23
May 1810-1850)
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