English
Etymology
From Latin tabidus, from tabere �waste, melt�.
Pronunciation
IPA|/�tæbid/
Adjective
en-adj
- medicine Pertaining to tabes.
- 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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