Scurvy Synonyms

skûrvē
A condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scorbutus
Of the most contemptible kind
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. abject
  2. low
  3. low-down
  4. miserable
  5. scummy

Words Related to Scurvy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. dysentery
  2. beriberi
  3. dysentry
  4. gout
  5. pellagra
  6. dropsy
  7. beri-beri

Scurvy Sentence Examples

  • Rickets, scurvy and "marasmus" may be instanced as diet diseases in children.

  • His men now suffering from scurvy, and his vessels requiring refitting, he anchored at Buru, one of the Moluccas, where the governor of the Dutch settlement supplied his wants.

  • In November the ship was wrecked on Bering Island; and the gallant Dane, worn out with scurvy, died there on the 8th of December 1741.

  • The return journey was one of terrible hardship aggravated by scurvy, and the party narrowly escaped Scott's fate.

  • Many of them wintered for years on Novaya Zemlya without great loss from scurvy.

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