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May 23, 2025
This week’s theme
Bloody words!

This week’s words
sanguineous
bloody-minded
anemia
red-blooded
hemorrhage

hemorrhage
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PRONUNCIATION:
(HEM-uhr-ij, HEM-rij)

MEANING:
noun:1. A severe or uncontrollable loss of blood.
 2. A rapid and significant loss of assets.
verb intr.:To bleed copiously.
verb tr.:To lose assets rapidly and in large amounts.

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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