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mange

noun

: any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Oakland Athletics are dumping and shredding, shedding players like a dog with mange. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022 But skeptics believe the animal is just a bear sick with mange. Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022 Jigme Gurung, a citizen scientist working with the WWF in upper Dolpa, has recently found numerous wild blue sheep that were severely ill or dead with mange-like symptoms and has seen camera-trap photos of other snow leopards with similar symptoms. Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022 He has been caught and treated for mange and freed to flaunt his handsomeness around Griffith Park. Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 As for dogs like Sassy, piebald with mange and gnawing at the bug bites on her shins, there was no chance — none — to leave a shelter alive. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 Severe mange and bug bites, feet bleached white by urine. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 By robbing them of their hair, mange deprives them of warmth. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 Tests later confirmed that P-22 had been exposed to rat poison and was suffering from mange, a parasitic mite. Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

alteration of Middle English manjewe, from Anglo-French manjue, from manger to eat

First Known Use

1540, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mange was in 1540

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