tabescent

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere

Adjective

tabescent (comparative more tabescent, superlative most tabescent)

  1. Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. [from 19th c.]
    • 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 42:
      He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tābēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of tābēscō
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