Usually means: Weakening or wasting away physically.
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  5. Tabefaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Tabefaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. tabefaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. tabefaction: FreeDictionary.org
  9. tabefaction: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Tabefaction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tabefaction)

▸ noun:  (archaic) A gradual loss of flesh due to disease.

Similar:
labefactation, waste, emaceration, mortification, anabrosis, macies, abatude, fatigation, affabulation, dejection, more...

Opposite:
enlargement, growth, expansion

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Similar:
labefactation, waste, emaceration, mortification, anabrosis, macies, abatude, fatigation, affabulation, dejection, more...

Opposite:
enlargement, growth, expansion



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