What does dropsy mean?
Dropsy means (archaic) Edema, swelling..
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/ˈdrɒp.si/ · noun
(archaic) Edema, swelling..
The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy.
Caliban: The dropſie drowne this foole,[…]
Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;— We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver, He has not half an inch of wholesome fat Upon his carious ribs—
Like someone moving back in space until the earth appears as a tiny mote of light, he managed to distance himself from the immediate discomfort of pipes with dropsy, defiant plumbing tools, and the overly familiar fiberglass, by musing aloud on the evolutionary history of humans that allowed the two of us to communicate verbally, creating a word picture of the problem and how to fix it.
Use dropsy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dropsy means (archaic) Edema, swelling..
Common synonyms include water sickness, oedema, edema.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy.
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