tabescent

English

Etymology

From Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

tabescent (comparative more tabescent, superlative most tabescent)

1. Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. [from 19th c.]
   • 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 42:

     He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.

Related terms

• tabescence

Latin

Verb

tābēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of tābēscō