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单词 consumptive
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consumptive

(kənsʌmptɪv)
adjective
A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
[old-fashioned]

consumptive in British English

(kənˈsʌmptɪv)
adjective
1. 
causing consumption; wasteful; destructive
2.  pathology
relating to or affected with consumption, esp tuberculosis of the lungs
noun
3.  pathology
a person who suffers from consumption
Derived forms
consumptively (conˈsumptively)
adverb
consumptiveness (conˈsumptiveness) or consumptivity (ˌkɒnsʌmpˈtɪvɪtɪ)
noun

consumptive in American English

(kənˈsʌmptɪv)
adjective
1. 
consuming or tending to consume; destructive or wasteful
2. 
of, having, or relating to tuberculosis of the lungs
noun
3. 
a person who has tuberculosis of the lungs
Derived forms
consumptively (conˈsumptively)
adverb
Word origin
ME consumpt < L consumptus (see consumption) + -ive

Examples of 'consumptive' in a sentence
consumptive

She had cast herself as a movie consumptive, and would not be dissuaded from the role by mere medical opinion.
Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
And she was lying there like a Victorian consumptive in her nightgown, stained red, staring at me glassily.
Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2001)
No such luck, because who would fall for a consumptive -- a catching disease as rabid as any known?
Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR (2001)
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