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leprous

/lep-ruhs/US // ˈlɛp rəs //UK // (ˈlɛprəs) //

麻风病,麻风的,麻风病的,麻风病患者

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. affected with leprosy.
    • : of or resembling leprosy.
    • : Botany, Zoology. covered with scales.

Examples

  • She smiled faintly, and then a tear rolled down the leprous cheek.

  • It has been given in obstructions of the liver and cutaneous affections of the leprous kind.

  • But you and I, Gentlemen, let us thank God we are not officially barked about with such a leprous elephantiasis as that.

  • Unhealthy, leprous-white was the skin, and there was not one hair, eyelash or eyebrow on the whole head.

  • And he thought of the photograph on Petersen's leprous wall.