tabid
English
Etymology
From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)
- (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
- Wasting away, declining.
- 1765: by a gradual and most tabid decline, in a course of eighteen hundred years, they must unavoidably have shrunk, so as to have come, when he wrote, almost to nothing. — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 7 (Penguin 2003, p. 445)