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LEPROSY
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LEPROSY is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.
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noun
- uncountableusuallyAn infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
- datedproscribeduncountableusuallySimilar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
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figurativelyuncountableusuallyAnything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
- Sin is a spiritual leprosy.
- abbreviationellipsisuncountableusuallyEllipsis of murine leprosy or feline leprosy (“diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium”).
- obsoleteuncountableusuallySynonym of mange and glanders in horses.
- obsoleterareuncountableusuallySynonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.