Tabes

Definition: Tabes

Tabes

Noun

1. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.

Etymology: Tabes \Ta"bes\, noun. [Latin expression, wasting disease.]. (Websters 1913)

"Tabes" is a common misspelling or typo for: tables, tabs, tales, tares, taxes.

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	A wasting condition, either of the whole body or of part of it. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contraction	Noun: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease; of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; Verb: compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tabes

English words defined with "tabes": tabes dorsalis, Tabes mesenterica, Tabetic, Tabid, Tabifical. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tabes": Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis ♦ tabetic ocular crises. (references)

Etymologies containing "tabes": Tabid. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Tabes" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (tabes), French (tabes), Portuguese (tabes).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Tabes (1932)
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"Tabes" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Tabes" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (-s form)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Expressions using "tabes": dorsal tabes ♦ Tabes Dorsalis ♦ tabes mesenterica. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tabes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tabes. (various references)

Arabic		‏السهام هزال مصاحب لمرض مزمن. (various references)

Bulgarian		отслабване (abatement, emasculation, enervation, getting thin, labefaction, losing weight, reducing, release, slimming, tabescence), измършавяване (attenuation, emaciation, tabefaction). (various references)

Danish		tabes, svindsot. (various references)

Dutch		tabes (tabes dorsalis). (various references)

French		tabes, tabès. (various references)

German		Tabes. (various references)

Greek		μαρασμόσ (macerator, tabefaction), φθίση (consumption, dying, perishing, phthisis, tabefaction, white plague). (various references)

Hebrew		כליון (annihilation, destruction, extinction, ruin). (various references)

Hungarian		gerincvelõ-sorvadásos bénulás. (various references)

Indonesian		kurus kering (beanpole, emaciate, raw-boned). (various references)

Italian		tabe. (various references)

Pig Latin		abestay.(various references)

Portuguese		tabes. (various references)

Russian		табес. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		usahnulost, sušenje (drying). (various references)

Spanish		marasmo (cachectic tabes, infantile atrophy, marasmus, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness). (various references)

Turkish		zayıflama (attenuation, decay, emaciation, fading, reducing, slimming, wane, weakening). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "tabes" (pronounced 'Ta"bes'): Pubes, Ribes. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, betas.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-s-t"
	-1 letter: abet, ates, base, bast, bate, bats, beat, best, beta, bets, east, eats, etas, sabe, sate, seat, seta, stab, tabs, teas.
	-2 letters: abs, ate, bas, bat, bet, eat, eta, sab, sae, sat, sea, set, tab, tae, tas, tea.
	-3 letters: ab, ae, as, at, ba, be, es, et, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-s-t"
	+1 letter: abates, ablest, absent, barest, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, bathes, beasts, beauts, bettas, bleats, breast, stable, tabers, tables.
	+2 letters: abaters, ablates, abreast, absents, albites, arbutes, astilbe, backset, baddest, baguets, baiters, baldest, ballets, bannets, banters, banties, baptise, barbets, barites, barrets, barters, barytes, basinet, baskets, bassets, basters, bastile, batches, bathers, batiste, batsmen, battens, batters, battles, battues, bawties, beastie, beastly, beaters, bedfast, berates, berthas, bestead, bestial, betakes, betrays, bezants, bistate, blasted, blaster, blastie, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, borates, bravest, brawest, breasts, breaths, bursate, butanes, cablets, dabster, debates, gabfest, labrets, oblates, rabbets, rebaits, rebates, rebatos, seaboot, setback, sorbate, stabbed, stabber, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, tabbies, tablets, terbias, upbeats.
	+3 letters: abatises, abettals, abetters, abettors, abluents, aborters, abreacts, absented, absentee, absenter, absently, absinthe, absolute, absterge, abstruse, abutters, acerbest, ambients, antbears, arbalest, arbelest, arbiters, asbestic, asbestos, asbestus, astilbes, backrest, backseat, backsets, baggiest, balkiest, ballutes, balmiest, baluster, banister, banquets, bantengs, baptised, baptises, baptizes, barghest, barguest, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, baronets, bartends, basaltes, basement, basinets, basketry, basseted, bassinet, bastiles, bastille, batchers, bathless, bathoses, batistes, battiest, battlers, bauxites, bawdiest, bayonets, beadiest, beakiest, beamiest, bearcats, beasties, beatings, beatless, beatniks, beauties, bedmates, bedstand, bedstead, bedstraw, beltways, bepaints, berettas, besteads, bestiary, bestowal, betaines, bethanks, bethesda, bezzants, bimetals, birettas, blackest, blandest, blankest, blankets, blastema, blasters, blastier, blasties, blathers, blatters, bleakest, bleaters, bloaters, boasters, boatsmen, botanies, botanise, brachets, brackets, braggest, brakiest, brashest, brattles, breadths, breasted, breathes, broadest, bromates, cabarets, cabestro, cabinets, cabresta, cabresto, castable, dabsters, database, daubiest, debaters, diabetes, drabbest, drabbets, eatables, epiblast, flatbeds, gabbiest, gabfests, gustable, habitues, halberts, hatboxes, iceboats, instable, jetbeads, labiates, lambaste, lamberts, lambiest, librates, listable, megabits, nestable, niobates, notables, obeisant, obstacle, obviates, offbeats, outbakes, outbeams, postbase, potables, probates, rarebits, ratsbane, rebaters, redbaits, retables, rustable, sabotage, saboteur, satiable, seaboots, seatbelt, setbacks, sibilate, snakebit, sorbates, sortable, stabbers, stabiles, stablers, stablest, statable, stonable, storable, stowable, subacute, subagent, subcaste, sublated, sublates, subovate, substage, substate, subulate, suitable, sunbathe, sweatbox, sybarite, tabarets, tabbises, tabetics, tableaus, taborers, taborets, tastable, taxables, teabowls, teaboxes, testable, tiebacks, timbales, tribades, typebars, unstable, urbanest, vibrates, wastable, wetbacks.
	+4 letters: abasement, abashment, abattises, abbotcies, abdicates, abductees, aberrants, abetments, abilities, ablatives, ablegates, abnegates, aboiteaus, abrogates, abruptest, absentees, absenters, absenting, absinthes, absoluter, absolutes, absorbent, abstained, abstainer, absterged, absterges, abstinent, abstruser, absurdest, abutments, acerbates, adsorbate, adsorbent, alabaster, alphabets, ambiverts, ambulates, arbalests, arbelests, arbutuses, ascorbate, astrolabe, aubretias, aubrietas, autobuses, backbeats, backbites, backdates, backrests, backseats, backstage, backswept, bacterias, bacterins, baguettes, bailments, bakemeats, baldpates, ballasted, ballistae, ballonets, balloters, ballsiest, balusters, banisters, banknotes, bannerets, bannister, banterers, baptizers, baratheas, barbettes, bareboats, barghests, barguests, baritones, barraters, barrenest, barretors, barrettes, barrister, barterers, barytones, basements, basipetal, basketful, basseting, bassetted, bassinets, bastilles, bastinade, bastioned, batfishes, bathhouse, bathrobes, batteners, batteries, battiness, baulkiest, beachiest, beanstalk, beastings, beastlier, beatifies, beauteous, becarpets, bedplates, bedstands, bedsteads, bedstraws, beefsteak, benzoates, bequeaths, bergamots, berrettas, bespatter, besteaded, bestially, bestowals, betatrons, betatters, bethesdas, betrayals, betrayers, bevatrons, biacetyls, biosafety, birrettas, bisulfate, bivalents, blastemal, blastemas, blastiest, blastment, blastulae, bleariest, bloviates, bluecoats, boathouse, boltheads, bootlaces, boracites, botanised, botanises, botanizes, bracelets, bractlets, braggiest, brainiest, branniest, brashiest, brassiest, brattices, brattiest, braunites, brawliest, brawniest, breadnuts, breakfast, breakouts, breasting, breathers, brocatels, browbeats, brutalise, bunkmates, butanones, butylates, butyrates, bystander, cabernets, cabestros, cabotages, cabrestas, cabrestos, cabrettas, capablest, carburets, catbriers, celibates, cohobates, combaters, constable, crabbiest, crabmeats, cubatures, databases, datebooks, deadbeats, deadbolts, deathbeds, debutants, diabetics, diatribes, downbeats, drawtubes, drumbeats, eastbound, embattles, entamebas, epiblasts, establish, estimable, estimably, eurybaths, extubates, fireboats, firebrats, flabbiest, flashtube, fleabites, gigabytes, grabbiest, grubstake, gustables, habitudes, hebetates, hecatombs, herbalist, hoofbeats, houseboat, incubates, intubates, isobutane, jubilates, keelboats, laborites, lambasted, lambastes, libelants, liberates, lifeboats, makebates, marbliest, meatballs, megabytes, obfuscate, obligates, observant, obstacles, obstinate, obtainers, obturates, outblazes, outbleats, outbraves, outbreaks, outfables, overbeats, portables, rabbiters, ratsbanes, rebaptism, rebuttals, redbreast, reobtains, sabotaged, sabotages, saboteurs, saltboxes, sanbenito, saturable, sauceboat, sawtimber, scabbiest, scabietic, scrutable, seatbelts, shabbiest, shiftable, sibilated, sibilates, snakebite, speedboat, spottable, stabilize, stableman, stablemen, stackable, stageable, stainable, stateable, stealable, steamboat, steerable, stoneboat, stoppable, storables, streambed, strobilae, stylobate, subagents, subaltern, subcastes, subjacent, subjugate, sublethal, sublimate, submarket, subrogate, substages, substance, substates, substrate, subtenant, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, sweatband, sybarites, tablefuls, tablesful, tabletops, tabooleys, taborines, tabourers, tabourets, tabulates, tailbones, tangibles, tarbushes, teaboards, terabytes, thebaines, tobaccoes, tribesman, trustable, tubulates, turbaries, unstabler, urbanites, verbalist, vertebras, visitable, wabbliest, wambliest, waterbeds, ytterbias.
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