Definitions for dropsy

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dropsy drop·sy

Spelling: [drop-see]

IPA: /ˈdrɒp si/

Dropsy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in dropsy (doprsy).

Definitions for dropsy

noun

1. (formerly) edema.
2. an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium Pseudomonas punctata.

Origin of dropsy

1250-1300; Middle English drop(e)sie, aphetic variant of ydropesie Old French Medieval Latin (h)ydrōpisīa, equivalent to Latin hydrōpis(is) (Greek hydrōpi-, stem of hýdrōps dropsy (hydr-

Examples for dropsy

Again, the other valet had long been dropsical, and the valet who died in 1687 died of dropsy.

Extraordinary cure by Dr. Cullingworth of a case of dropsy in Bradfield, 1881.

A certificate was made out that the last man had died of "dropsy."

The "noose of Varuṇa" will come to mean merely the disease of dropsy.

Jaundice, dropsy, and great hardness in the region of the liver.

And from dropsy to the deprivation of life into which your folly will bring you.

Also the Woman with the dropsy, which is accounted his chef-d'œuvre.

And in other cases, asthma, dropsy, and epilepsy are caused.

He lived until August 1782, and without any return of the dropsy.

A hard drinker; afflicted with asthma, jaundice, and dropsy.