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IN CONDITION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in condition mean?
• IN CONDITION (adjective)
The adjective IN CONDITION has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: IN CONDITION used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physically fit
Synonyms:
conditioned; in condition
Context example:
exercised daily to keep herself in condition
Similar:
fit (physically and mentally sound or healthy)
Context examples
"They will be brought up," said he, in a serious accent, "to be as unlike myself as is possible. In feeling, in action, in condition, in every thing."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mice with heart failure that were treated for six weeks with the molecule showed not only that the disease had been stabilized—as usual with present-day medications—but also the improvement in condition.
(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)
But we were not in condition to judge of this fact from the appearance of the gravy, forasmuch as the young gal had dropped it all upon the stairs—where it remained, by the by, in a long train, until it was worn out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It hath ever grieved me that I had not his name, for he smote upon me with a mace and went upon his way ere I was in condition to have much speech with him; but his arms were an allurion in chief above a fess azure.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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