tabescent

Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.

Adjective

  1. Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.
    • He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope. - 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 42:

Origin

From Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere.

Forms

more tabescent most tabescent

Related

tabescence

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