• Tabescent

    Origin

    From Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere

    Full definition of tabescent

    Adjective

    tabescent

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

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