white plague

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noun

1. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
• Syn:
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease
• Hypernyms:
tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
2. an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
• Syn:
drug addiction
• Topics:
narcotic
• Hypernyms:
addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation
• Hyponyms:
alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness, cocaine addiction,
heroin addiction, caffein addiction, nicotine addiction