dropsical
[drop-si-kuh l]
adjective
of, like, or affected with dropsy.
Origin of dropsical
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Related Words for dropsical
bloated, swollen, overblown, grown, extended, diffuse, spread, puffed, ranting, distended, filled, stretched, augmented, aureate, bombastic, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, magniloquentExamples from the Web for dropsical
Historical Examples of dropsical
It weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts.
A Boswell of BaghdadE. V. Lucas
Dropsical women, swollen like wine skins were placed on the ground before him.
ThaisAnatole France
Again, the other valet had long been dropsical, and the valet who died in 1687 died of dropsy.
The Valet's Tragedy and Other StoriesAndrew Lang
This one was dropsical, the other subject to apoplectic fits.
The NabobAlphonse Daudet
The debility of age and dropsical legs had long oppressed him.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical UsesWilliam Withering
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dropsical
[drŏp′sĭ-kəl]
adj.
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