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wasting sickness

wasting sickness noun: wasting disease.

Noun

wasting sickness (uncountable)

  1. wasting disease
    • "No, it's wasting sickness," she added, as she turned round to the mother with a lofty air of conviction; "it's wasting sickness!"1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 300

Questions about wasting sickness

What does wasting sickness mean?
Wasting sickness means wasting disease.
What part of speech is wasting sickness?
Wasting sickness is a noun.

Words near wasting sickness in the dictionary

  1. wasting diseases
  2. wasting investment
  3. wasting investments
  4. wasting palsies
  5. wasting palsy
  6. wasting sickness
  7. wasting time
  8. wastingly
  9. wastingness
  10. wastings
  11. wastness

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