Scrofulous

//ˈskɹɒfjʊləs//

Synonyms for "scrofulous" (29 found)

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Translations

4 translations across 4 languages.

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Finnish

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  • risatautinen adj (of, related to, or suffering from scrofula)

French

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  • scrofuleux adj (of, related to, or suffering from scrofula)

Galician

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  • escrofuloso adj (of, related to, or suffering from scrofula)

Portuguese

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  • escrofuloso adj (of, related to, or suffering from scrofula)

Sample sentences

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On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.

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The proſtate gland is ſometimes ſcrofulous. I have ſeen, in cutting into it, preciſely the ſame white curdly matter, which takes place in a ſcrofulous abſorbent gland. In ſqueezing it alſo, I have forced from out from its ducts a ſcrofulous pus.

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Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.

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[…] I wrestle with the events of the last two years, picking over the past, looking for the reasons why I find myself here, gazing across a multitude of day trippers, sunburned holidaymakers, squalling children, ignorant matrons perusing their puzzle magazines, scrofulous bank clerks surreptitiously kissing their new girlfriends on the lips as if amazed at their daring.

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