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Tabid vs Rabid - What's the difference?

tabid | rabid |

As adjectives the difference between tabid and rabid

is that tabid is pertaining to tabes while rabid is affected with rabies.

tabid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
  • Wasting away, declining.
  • :* 1765': by a gradual and most '''tabid decline, in a course of eighteen hundred years, they must unavoidably have shrunk, so as to have come, when he wrote, almost to nothing. — Laurence Sterne, ''The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. 7 (Penguin 2003, p. 445)

    • rabid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affected with rabies.
    • a rabid dog or fox
  • Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
    • a rabid virus
  • Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  • very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.
    • a rabid socialist
    rabid Green Bay Packers fans

    Quotations

    * The rabid flight, Of winds that ruin ships. -- Chapman

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