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failures to thrive

failures to thrive is the plural of failure to thrive.

Meaning of failure to thrive

Noun

failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)

  1. (usually) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
  2. (usually, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
  3. (usually) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive.

Questions about failures to thrive

What is failures to thrive the plural of?
Failures to thrive is the plural of failure to thrive.

Words near failures to thrive in the dictionary

  1. failure to thrive
  2. failureless
  3. failureproof
  4. failures
  5. failures to launch
  6. failures to thrive
  7. fain
  8. fainaigue
  9. fainaigued
  10. fainaiguer
  11. fainaiguers

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