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synonyms for dropsical

  • bloated
  • magnified
  • overblown
  • swollen
  • aggrandized
  • amplified
  • augmented
  • diffuse
  • dilated
  • distended
  • enlarged
  • extended
  • filled
  • grown
  • overestimated
  • puffed
  • ranting
  • spread
  • stretched
  • surcharged
  • aureate
  • bombastic
  • euphuistic
  • flatulent
  • flowery
  • fustian
  • grandiloquent
  • magniloquent
  • ostentatious
  • pompous
  • pretentious
  • prolix
  • pumped up
  • rhapsodical
  • rhetorical
  • showy
  • tumescent
  • tumid
  • turgid
  • verbose
  • windy
  • wordy
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antonyms for dropsical

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  • shrunken
  • abbreviated
  • abridged
  • compressed
  • contracted
  • reduced
  • deflated
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How to use dropsical in a sentence

It weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts.
A BOSWELL OF BAGHDADE. V. LUCAS
This ready, though raw wench, gave an instance of this, and improved on the dropsical hint I had given her.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSON
The lady's seeming plumpness was owing to a dropsical disorder, and to the round posture she lay in—very likely, truly.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSON
His asthma tormented him day and night, and dropsical symptoms made their appearance.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUS
M. Chailly tells us, that in thirteen cases of convulsions nine were first pregnancies, and seven of the females were dropsical.
THE MATRON'S MANUAL OF MIDWIFERY, AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY AND IN CHILDBEDFREDERICK HOLLICK
In the course of a month the dropsical symptoms returned, and were again removed by the same medicine.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERING
Very much deformed; asthma of several years continuance, but now dropsical to a great degree.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERING
The increase of the dropsical symptoms now made it necessary to repeat the Digitalis.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERING
In the last stage of a phthisis pulmonalis became dropsical.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERING
In the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERING
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