Meanings
adjectiveingravescent (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletemedicineIncreasing in severity.
ingravescent apoplexy
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Cerebral hemorrhage, ingravescent in character, was diagnosticated and preparations were at once made for ligaturing the right common carotid.
1890, Transactions of the American Neurological Association, page 76
Origin
- Latiningravēscent
- Englishingravescent
From Latin ingravēscent.
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Rhymes with ingravescent
crescentfluorescentantidepressantincandescentconvalescentsuppressantiridescentincessantluminescentquiescentpubescentdepressanteffervescentopalescentpearlescentflorescentevanescentelectroluminescenttumescentphosphorescentessentprepubescentsenescentobsolescent
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Chicago
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