Usually means: Intense fear of water exposure.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word hydrophobia:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hydrophobia: Merriam-Webster
  2. hydrophobia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hydrophobia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hydrophobia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hydrophobia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hydrophobia, hydrophobia: Wordnik
  7. hydrophobia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hydrophobia: Wiktionary
  9. hydrophobia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hydrophobia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hydrophobia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hydrophobia: Dictionary.com
  13. hydrophobia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hydrophobia (disambiguation), Hydrophobia (video game), Hydrophobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hydrophobia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hydrophobia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hydrophobia: Rhymezone
  18. hydrophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  19. Hydrophobia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hydrophobia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hydrophobia: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hydrophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. hydrophobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hydrophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hydrophobia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hydrophobia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. hydrophobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hydrophobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Hydrophobia (rabies): Merck Manuals
  5. Hydrophobia: MedFriendly Glossary
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. hydrophobia: Medical dictionary
  10. Hydrophobia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hydrophobia, Hydrophobia, Hydrophobia: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. Hydrophobia: The Phobia List
  3. hydrophobia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hydrophobia: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hydrophobias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hydrophobia)

noun:  (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.
noun:  (psychology, colloquial) A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia.

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