tabescent

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  1. Latin tābēscēns, tābēscent-, present participle of tābēscere, to waste away, inchoative of tābēre, from tābēs, a wasting away.

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  1. from Latin tabescen(t-)s, present participle of tabescere, waste away, inceptive of tabere, waste away: see tabes.
 

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