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English
Etymology
Latin ingravēscent
Pronunciation
Adjective
ingravescent (not comparable)
- (medicine, obsolete) Increasing in severity.
- ingravescent apoplexy
1890, Transactions of the American Neurological Association, page 76:Cerebral hemorrhage, ingravescent in character, was diagnosticated and preparations were at once made for ligaturing the right common carotid.
Latin
Verb
ingravēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ingravēscō