n. A heavy release of blood within or from a body.
v. To bleed copiously.
v. To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
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n. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
Word Usage
"Perhaps because of this, but also because of the devotion his mother showed as a trade union activist before her death from a brain haemorrhage, Larsson demanded very high standards of behaviour of himself and others."