consumptive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈsʌmptɪv/
consumptive
- Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- a long consumptive war
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- Of, or relating to consumption.
- (pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
- consumptive cough
- The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
- German: schwindsüchtig
- French: tuberculeux, tuberculeuse
consumptive (plural consumptives)
- A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
- French: tuberculeux, tuberculeuse
- Spanish: tísico
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