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hydroptic

Adjective

Meaning

hydroptic (comparative more hydroptic, superlative most hydroptic)

Alternative form of hydropic

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph. John Donne

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. Cormac McCarthy

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