Consumptives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONSUMPTIVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CONSUMPTIVE, a person affected with consumption
ADJECTIVE:
• affected with a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis
• relating to the using up of resources
• a person with a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending to consume

Words related to CONSUMPTIVES

consumptive20

How to use CONSUMPTIVES in a sentence

• Consumptives by the tens of thousand have sought a renewed lease of life in the warmest sections of the State, and many have come back greatly benefited.
• Consumptives should be careful to remember their great responsibility in forming alliances whereby this terrible evil is perpetuated.
• The same general course should be pursued, however, as with dyspeptic consumptives.
• Consumptives, and invalids generally, should never sleep under the former, as they are unhealthful.
• The red cattle were the largest in England, their milk rich and nourishing, so much so that it was given specially to consumptives.
• Dishes used by consumptives, and persons suffering from contagious diseases, can be made harmless by thorough washing in thick suds of almost boiling water.
• Baird, himself, looked wretched, being a mere shadow of his former self, but like all consumptives he imagined he was going to get well.
• Excitable and neurotic, like all consumptives, his imagination made of those waiting moments a veritable hell.
• Consumptives, information for and those living with, III, 421.
• Artists, in portraying saints, often chose as their models pale and emaciated consumptives.
• She is, shall we say, a nurse in a sanatorium for consumptives or, to suppose a case more critical and complicated still, she may herself be a patient in such a sanatorium.
• You will like to watch the processes of pickling olives and pressing out the clear amber oil, which is now used by consumptives in preference to the cod-liver oil.
• If consumptives must go away from the comforts of home, this is a haven of rest for them.
• The sea-gulls screamed about his head, the sea-lions barked with the hollow note of consumptives on the outlying rocks.
• As is often the case with consumptives, his death had been sudden at the last, so sudden that Lucy scarcely realized that he was dying, until she held him dead upon her bosom.

Similar words containing NSUMPTIVE without suffix s and without prefix co

consumptive20 transumptive19 consumptively25 nonconsumptive23 consumptiveness24

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