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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
originLearned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
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