Scurvy
['skɜːvɪ] or ['skɝvi]
Definition
(noun.) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
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Definition
(n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
(n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Scurfy, scabbed, scabby.[2]. Vile, mean, low, base, bad, sorry, contemptible, despicable, worthless, pitiful, abject.
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Definition
adj. scurfy: affected with scurvy: scorbutic: shabby: vile vulgar contemptible.—n. a disease marked by livid spots on the skin and general debility due to an improper dietary and particularly an insufficient supply of fresh vegetable food.—adv. Scur′vily in a scurvy manner: meanly basely.—ns. Scur′viness state of being scurvy: meanness; Scur′vy-grass a genus of cruciferous plants efficacious in curing scurvy.
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Examples
- The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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