"cachectic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin cachecticus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cachectic",
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      "form": "most cachectic",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 44",
          "text": "His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking like one of the gutted nags the Druids used to impale for decoration) […]",
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        "Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness."
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          "word": "procachectic"
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      "ipa": "/kəˈkɛktɪk/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛktɪk"
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  "word": "cachectic"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cachectic",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most cachectic",
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        "superlative"
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