tabescent
English
Adjective
tabescent (comparative more tabescent, superlative most tabescent)
- 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.
- 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 42:
Latin
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