dropsied
/ˈdrɑpsid/
adjective
- Affected with dropsy; swollen with fluid.
- The dropsied patient was given medication to reduce the swelling.
- The doctor examined the dropsied abdomen carefully.
- In old medical texts, a dropsied limb was often treated with special diets.
- Bloated or swollen in a figurative sense, as if with excess.
- His writing style was dropsied with unnecessary adjectives.
- The dropsied bureaucracy was slow and inefficient.
- The company's dropsied budget needed serious trimming.
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