Scurvy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCURVY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a disease caused by lack of Vitamin C
• a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century
• Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
• Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
• A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
• a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
• disease caused by lack of vitamin C
ADJECTIVE:
• scabby, mean
• worthless or contemptible
• of the most contemptible kind
• mean and despicable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• base or contemptible
• a disease resulting from vitamin C deficiency

Words related to SCURVY

scurvier13 scurvies13 scurviest14 scurvily16 scurviness15

How to use SCURVY in a sentence

• One of the boys belonging to the schooner was brought to the camp for medical treatment, as he was suffering from scurvy.
• After the two expeditions were sent out, those who remained behind became much more low spirited, and the symptoms of scurvy increased.
• This was undoubtedly very effectual in curing the scurvy.
• Scurvy, the relentless familiar of the sailor on the deep sea, made no peril or labor too severe.
• No vegetables could be obtained, and for want of green food scurvy broke out among the troops.
• At Quebec he encamped with his men, and, after a winter rendered frightful by the cold and the ravages of the scurvy, he returned in the spring to St.
• On behalf of the native political prisoners representations were made by the gaol doctor that they were dying in numbers from scurvy and fever, for want of vegetable food.
• He was consumed with a dropsy and scurvy, and hastened home, that he might yield up his breath in his native country, which he had so much adorned by his valor.
• When they reached Cape Tiburon, where there is a good anchorage, they brought aboard a store of oranges, to save them from the scurvy.
• The scurvy was perhaps the more common ailment, as indeed it is to-day.
• She had lost a third of her crew from scurvy, and of the rest but six were strong enough to pull at a rope when she came into port.
• The fresh juice of Oranges is antiseptic, and will prevent scurvy if taken in moderation daily.
• Its beneficial uses in scurvy, are due to the potash salts which it contains.
• We have compared bad use of language to a scurvy condition of the skin.
• All had a little touch of scurvy, and it seemed to be just what we craved.
• Supplies ran low, and to make matters worse the pestilence of scurvy came upon the camp.
• I have a scurvy head that will not let me write longer.
• And it has been justly noticed, that this plant grows plentifully in those high latitudes where the scurvy is most obnoxious.
• That winter scurvy laid him upon a bed of pain and, lying there, his heart turned to the old home.
• The first to die was Cross, of scurvy and starvation, and he was buried in a shallow grave near the hut, all hands save Ellison turning out to honor his memory.
• It is probable, that the scurvy sooner appeared among these strangers, from their having been taken at sea, and consequently more disposed to the disease.

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