How to pronounce “leprous”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.
• Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
• Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
• Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
• (figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
• (alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
• (botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
• (obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.

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