tabescent
English
Etymology
From Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere.
Adjective
tabescent (comparative more tabescent, superlative most tabescent)
- Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. [from 19th c.]
- 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 42:
- He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.
- 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 42:
Related terms
- tabescence
Latin
Verb
tābēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of tābēscō