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Dropsy

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Noun
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drop=sy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Dropsy has 1 sense

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Dropsy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 = OEDEMA.
2 sl. a tip or bribe.

Derivative
dropsical adj. (in sense 1).
Etymology
ME f. idrop(e)sie f. OF idropesie ult. f. L hydropisis f. Gk hudrops dropsy (as HYDRO-)

THESAURUS

Dropsy

abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dizziness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, flux, gassiness, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, inflation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, meteorism, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, puff, puffiness, puffing, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tabes, tachycardia, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, windiness

ROGET THESAURUS

Dropsy

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.


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