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dyspepsy

dyspepsy noun: dyspepsia.

Noun

dyspepsy (countable and uncountable, plural dyspepsies)

  1. (archaic) dyspepsia
    • So Dangerfield's little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to. For Dangerfield commenced with Toole; and that physician, on the third day of his instalment, found that Sturk had stept in...1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley...

Forms of dyspepsy

pluraldyspepsies

Questions about dyspepsy

What does dyspepsy mean?
Dyspepsy means dyspepsia.
What part of speech is dyspepsy?
Dyspepsy is a noun.
What is the plural of dyspepsy?
The plural of dyspepsy is dyspepsies.

Words near dyspepsy in the dictionary

  1. dyspathies
  2. dyspathy
  3. dyspepsia
  4. dyspepsias
  5. dyspepsies
  6. dyspepsy
  7. dyspeptic
  8. dyspeptical
  9. dyspeptically
  10. dyspeptics
  11. dyspeptone

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