consumptive in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for consumptive in the English»French Dictionary

consumptive [Brit kənˈsʌm(p)tɪv, Am kənˈsəm(p)tɪv] N ADJ archaic

consumptive

tuberculeux/-euse m/f

Translations for consumptive in the French»English Dictionary

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phtisique

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poitrinaire

consumptive dated

tubard (tubarde)

consumptive

tubard (tubarde)

consumptive

bacillaire

consumptive

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English

In it, he combined his disparate scholarly interests to develop a theory of the productive and consumptive activity inherent in everyday life.

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I imagine that slightly conversing with consumptive patients is seldom or never sufficient to catch the disease.

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Waters used for consumptive purposes will also remain unaffected.

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This community had confrontation with the monks respect to property or consumptive use of some rivers there.

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Put simply, an automatic process is unintentional, involuntary, effortless (not consumptive of limited processing capacity), and occurring outside awareness.

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A resort for consumptives or persons having weak lungs, the city had sanatoria built as late as 1929 in the dry climate.

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This deceleration was defined as state and working labor movements designing policies to shrink the scale of the economy as a solution to environmental degradation and their own consumptive requirements.

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Although not legitimized, backyard wrestling federations are often created and consumptive of time and finance to maintain like any organization.

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Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.

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The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use.

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