"tabescent" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 42:",
          "text": "He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.",
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        "Wasting away, or becoming emaciated."
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