🇬🇧 Hemorrhage meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To hemorrhage means to suddenly lose a lot of blood very quickly, usually because a blood vessel has broken inside the body. It’s more than just a small cut—it is a serious, heavy kind of bleeding that must be treated by a doctor right away.

When I opened the old pen, it hemorrhaged ink so fast the paper thought it was modern art.

The friendly vampire refused to make anyone hemorrhage, so he just drank beet juice and called it a night.

The angry marker hemorrhaged ink all over my homework as if it were protesting math problems.

The cherry pie hemorrhaged filling the second we cut it, bravely sacrificing itself for dessert time.

In real life, when a person or animal hemorrhages, it’s a serious medical emergency that doctors must treat right away—nothing like a silly ketchup explosion in the kitchen.

In the park a boy cut his leg on glass; bright blood began to hemorrhage. People froze as the wound might hemorrhage when he moved. A woman pressed a cloth, warned it could hemorrhage if they let go, and said hold firm so it won't hemorrhage. They kept pressure; the bleeding slowed and did not hemorrhage again.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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