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tabid
adjective 
  1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
  2. Wasting away, declining.
  • 1765: by a gradual and most 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)
Etymology: From Latin tabidus, from tabere "waste, melt".

     
 
  

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