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

Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈtæbid/

Adjective
en-adj

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)

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