"Cachexy" Quotes from Famous Books
... impotence &c 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality^; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity &c 683. anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood. declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia^, adynamy^, cachexy^, cachexia [Med.], sprain, strain. reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards. softling^, weakling; infant &c 129; youth &c 127. V. be weak &c adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, ... — Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |