Scurvy is an English word with synonyms like abject or low. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Scurvy in a sentence
Scurvy meaning
- Affected or covered with scurf (“skin disease causing flakes of skin to fall off”) or scabs; scurfy, scabby; also, of or relating to a skin disease causing scurf or to scurvy (noun noun sense 1).
- Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy.
- Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.
Synonyms of Scurvy
Using Scurvy
- The main meaning on this page is: Affected or covered with scurf (“skin disease causing flakes of skin to fall off”) or scabs; scurfy, scabby; also, of or relating to a skin disease causing scurf or to scurvy (noun noun sense 1). | Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy. | Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.
- Useful related words include: abject, low, low-down, miserable.
- In the example corpus, scurvy often appears in combinations such as: of scurvy, scurvy was, the scurvy.
Context around Scurvy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scurvy
- In this selection, "scurvy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, dropsy, experimental, experimental, ship and citation stand out and add context to how "scurvy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affected by scurvy when its and animals infantile scurvy ship beri. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scurvy" sits close to words such as aau, acme and aggravate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scurvy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How do you treat scurvy? (5 words)
That's why we get scurvy. (6 words)
Scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency with some nasty side effects. (11 words)
There’s also the whole interesting area of not just what killed them—scurvy, lead poisoning, consumption they brought with them, some combination—but whether they had actually gone slightly crazy after all that time or from their illnesses. (39 words)
In other cases, a meat-only diet could cause scurvy. citation Scott's 1902 expedition used lightly fried seal meat and liver, whereby complete recovery from incipient scurvy was reported to take less than two weeks. (36 words)
In all, six passengers died from scurvy before the Coronet finally arrived in Portland in October 1911, where Sandford was arrested, and more charges naming him responsible for the deaths on board soon followed. (34 words)
How do you treat scurvy? (5 words)
Example sentences (20)
Beri-beri, polyneuritis in birds, epidemic dropsy, scurvy, experimental scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pellagra.
In other cases, a meat-only diet could cause scurvy. citation Scott's 1902 expedition used lightly fried seal meat and liver, whereby complete recovery from incipient scurvy was reported to take less than two weeks.
Mr Colbert poured them both glasses of tequila with ice and extra lime to "keep away the scurvy".
How do you treat scurvy?
In all, six passengers died from scurvy before the Coronet finally arrived in Portland in October 1911, where Sandford was arrested, and more charges naming him responsible for the deaths on board soon followed.
The case study of a 65-year-old woman with a restricted diet and social isolation led to her diagnosis of scurvy.
He will be blind and/or have scurvy by the time he's 23.
Scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency with some nasty side effects.
That's why we get scurvy.
This included exposure to the Royal Navy’s battle with scurvy—a struggle that presaged Takaki’s own campaign against beriberi.
Along the way they encounter death, gangrene, scurvy, snow blindness, frostbite, dysentery, altitude sickness and other severe discomforts.
There’s also the whole interesting area of not just what killed them—scurvy, lead poisoning, consumption they brought with them, some combination—but whether they had actually gone slightly crazy after all that time or from their illnesses.
While actual scurvy is rare, about 6 percent of Americans over age six don’t get enough of the vitamin.
Although Lind was not the first to suggest citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy, he was the first to study their effect by a systematic experiment in 1747.
Another example is the development of scurvy among infants in the late 19th century in the United States.
A significant number of travelers were suffering from scurvy by the end of their trips.
Deficiency main Scurvy is an avitaminosis resulting from lack of vitamin C, since without this vitamin, the synthesized collagen is too unstable to perform its function.
For example, the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 became seriously affected by scurvy when its leader Adrien de Gerlache initially discouraged his men from eating penguin and seal meat.
Fresh meat from animals which make their own vitamin C (which most animals do) contains enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and even partly treat it.
Freshwater teleost fishes also require dietary vitamin C in their diet or they will get scurvy.
Common combinations with scurvy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of scurvy 11×
- scurvy was 4×
- the scurvy 4×
- scurvy is 4×
- from scurvy 3×
- scurvy and 3×
- and scurvy 3×
- scurvy in 2×
- scurvy citation 2×
- scurvy by 2×