Tabid

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtæbid/

Origin

From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.

Full definition of tabid

Adjective

1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
2. 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)