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COLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colic mean? 

COLIC (noun)
  The noun COLIC has 1 sense:

1. acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)play

  Familiarity information: COLIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colic; gripes; griping; intestinal colic

Hypernyms ("colic" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colic"):

lead colic; painter's colic (symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation)

Derivation:

colicky (suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal)


 Context examples 


And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi's colic got into the shipping list and Daisy's fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which my conductor led me into a room where a great physician resided, who was famous for curing that disease, by contrary operations from the same instrument.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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