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phthisis


  • n  involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

  • The phthisis victim loses weight, wastes away.
  • Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago.
  • Wall Streeters parochially felt that the Administration's encouraging words were calculated to alleviate the stock market's phthisis.

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