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ta⋅bes⋅cent

  [tuh-bes-uhnt]
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–adjective
wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed.
Origin:
1885–90; < L tābēscent- (s. of tābēscēns), prp. of tābēscere to waste away. See tabes, -escent

Related forms:
ta⋅bes⋅cence, noun
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ta·bes·cent   (tə-běs'ənt)   
adj.  Progressively wasting away.

[Latin tābēscēns, tābēscent-, present participle of tābēscere, to waste away, inchoative of tābēre, from tābēs, a wasting away.]
ta·bes'cence n.
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Tabescent

Ta*bes"cent\, a. [L. tabescens wasting, p. pr. of tabescere.] Withering, or wasting away.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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