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algid

adjective as in cool

adjective as in ice-cold

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Example Sentences

The skin is perceptibly cold in the algid stage of cholera.

Harry felt an algid chill creep over him.

For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!

If the attack has been very severe, and particularly if the algid stage has been prolonged, fever of a low type is apt to occur, and indeed may terminate fatally.

Equally ineffectual are other means used for communicating heat to the algid body and thereby reviving its functions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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