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Sufferer

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

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Narrower term 22

Bleeder 76% connected

One who, or that which, draws blood.

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Consumptive 76% connected

Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

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Convalescent 76% connected

Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.

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Depressive 76% connected

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

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Diabetic 76% connected

Alt. of Diabetical

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Dyspeptic 76% connected

Alt. of Dyspeptical

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Epileptic 76% connected

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

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Incurable 76% connected

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.

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Invalid 76% connected

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

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Lazar 76% connected

A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

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Leper 76% connected

A person affected with leprosy.

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Lunatic 76% connected

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

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Maniac 76% connected

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

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Mongoloid 76% connected

Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.

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Monomaniac 76% connected

A person affected by monomania.

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Neurotic 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

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Patient 76% connected

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

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Rheumatic 76% connected

Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.

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Spewer 76% connected

One who spews.

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Syphilitic 76% connected

Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.

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Tubercular 76% connected

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

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Valetudinarian 76% connected

Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.

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Unfortunate 76% connected

Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortu…

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Victim 76% connected

A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

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Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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have 74% connected

of Have

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have 74% connected

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Martyr 92% connected

One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.

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