Tabescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Progressively wasting away.
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  • adj. Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Withering, or wasting away.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In medicine, suffering from tabes; wasting away; becoming emaciated.
  • In botany, wasting or shriveling.
    • Word Usage
    "At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim its literary property…."
     
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