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wasting sickness en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) wasting disease
    • "No, it's wasting sickness," she added, as she turned round to the mother with a lofty air of conviction; "it's wasting sickness!" 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 300: