hydrophobia

Examples

• All

• You got the hydrophobia yet?

  Fiction book (1997)

• I'd like to tell him truthfully and with tears in my eyes... ...that you all had hydrophobia.

  Son of the Gods (1930)

• He's got hydrophobia, but he won't bite.

  Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)

• But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who's been bitten... ...and is now immune?

  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

• They call it hydrophobia.

  Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)

• Seahorses have also been credited with curing leprosy, hydrophobia, and infertility.

  Academic text (1990)

• And when the police came and put brown paper over the bite to keep the flies off while they waited for the ambulance, the Burkes had jumped up and down, making howling faces and clutching their throats, partly to tell her that she would die a horrible death of hydrophobia, and partly to tell her they would get her next time.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In severe cases of rabies, patients often show symptoms of hydrophobia, making them extremely fearful of water.

• The tragic consequence of rabies is hydrophobia, where even the thought of water can cause panic.

• Doctors often refer to hydrophobia when discussing one of the most frightening symptoms of rabies.

Synonyms

A

aquaphobia

vshydrophobia

• Specialized

9.9

A very strong fear of water that makes people avoid swimming and other water activities

is the same fear but mainly linked as a rabies symptom

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Etymology