expense vs phthisic

expense

noun
  • A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. 

  • The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. 

verb
  • To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. 

phthisic

noun
  • Any wasting disease. 

  • A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis. 

  • A person suffering from phthisis. 

  • Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi). 

adj
  • Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive. 

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