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Chronic Chronically Long Illness Disability Lasts Time Compare

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A c______ illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute .A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute .
...chronic back pain.
Most of them were chronically ill.
word chronic
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adjective
A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute .
...chronic back pain.
Most of them were chronically ill.
You can describe someone's bad habits or behaviour as chronic when they have behaved like that for a long time and do not seem to be able to stop themselves.
Anyone who does not believe that smoking is an addiction has never been a chronic smoker.
...a chronic worrier.
A chronic situation or problem is very severe and unpleasant .
One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty.
There is a chronic shortage of patrol cars in this police district.
Research and technology are said to be chronically underfunded.
inflections chronicallychronically
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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