tabid

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈtæbid/

Definition of tabid

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to tabes.
    “The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]”
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adj

  1. Pertaining to tabes.
    “The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]”
  2. Wasting away, declining.
    “he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, 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.”

name

  1. A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-der. Latin tābeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tābidus English tabid From tabes + -id, from Latin tābidus (“melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting”), from tābeō + -idus.

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