Crossword-Solution: DROPSY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dropsy | n. | An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DROPSY | anagram | DRYOPS |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DROPSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Butterfingers habit: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| Disease of fishes | 1 answer |
| Dr. Johnson ailment | 1 answer |
| Edema, by another name | 1 answer |
| Edema, once | 1 answer |
| Fish disease | 1 answer |
| Old name of oedema | 1 answer |
| Poor outfielder's affliction? | 1 answer |
| Swelling disease of fish | 1 answer |
| WATERY fluid in connective tissues of the body | 1 answer |
| WATERY fluid in serous cavities of the body | 1 answer |
| illness in which watery fluid collects in the body | 1 answer |
| hydrocele | 2 answers |
| oedema | 4 answers |
| Edema | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DROPSY (5)
Rowland Mallet remembered having seen her, as a child--an immensely stout, white-faced lady, wearing a high cap of very stiff tulle, speaking English with a formidable accent, and suffering from dropsy.
Mightn’t a’ seen it now, only the missus cleared the raffle out of the chest, and, ‘Give me that paper,’ I says, seeing it in her hand; and I fell to reading it, for a man’ll read anything bar tracts lying in bed eight months, as I’ve been with the dropsy.
Disease continued progressively to disable him; he who had clambered so stalwartly over the rude rocks of the Marquesas, bringing peace to warfaring clans, was for some time carried in a chair between the mission and the church, and at last confined to bed, impotent with dropsy, and tormented with bed-sores and sciatica.
Write also that Fulke himself is sick to death of a dropsy." "'Nay!" cried Fulke, hanging in the well-shaft.
Some one discovered a poor Scotchman, dying with dropsy, lying utterly neglected upon the floor of a miserable hut, and appeal was made to the Moravians to take him and care for him.
Quotes with DROPSY (1)
But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatien…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2009).