consumpted

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

consumpted (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Suffering from tuberculosis (consumption).
    • 2011, Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920, →ISBN:
      And the whole family was consumpted; years ago there was consumption, wasn't it?
    • 2015, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, →ISBN, page 124:
      “No, it's Mr. Dick; he's consumpted. I clean up his room ever' mornin'. He coughs all the time, jes' like Mr. Wiggs done.
    • 2015, Emma Payne Erskine, The Mountain Girl, →ISBN:
      The' hain't nothin' better'n the smell o' new sile fer them 'at's consumpted."

Verb[edit]

consumpted

  1. simple past and past participle of consumpt