Definitions for dropsical

dropsical drop·si·cal

Spelling: [drop-si-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈdrɒp sɪ kəl/

Dropsical is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 732 anagrams from letters in dropsical (acdiloprs).

Definitions for dropsical

adjective

  1. of, like, or affected with dropsy.

Origin of dropsical

First recorded in 1670-80; drops(y) + -ical

Examples for dropsical

There is not yet the slightest reason to suspect any dropsical collection.

dropsical women, swollen like wine skins were placed on the ground before him.

This one was dropsical, the other subject to apoplectic fits.

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

One was dropsical, the other subject to rushes of blood to the head.

She was standing next to the dropsical woman by the fireside as she spoke.

That's Bob, the youngest—he there with a lip like a dropsical sausage.

The debility of age and dropsical legs had long oppressed him.

It weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts.

She was now on her death-bed, dropsical, gloomy, and neglected.

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