خَدَّدَ

Root: خد

Form: 2

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خَدَّدَII , or خُدِّدَ, [both of which may be correct, for the verb is said in the K to be both intrans. and trans.,] His flesh became contracted, shrunk, or wrinkled; as also تخدّد : or his flesh wasted so that there appeared streaks upon his skin: (TA in art. خب:) or he became lean, or lank, or light of flesh, or slender or lank in the belly, so that his flesh became furrowed, or wrinkled: and تخدّد لَحْمُهُ his flesh became flaccid and quivering, by reason of leanness. And خدّدهُ It rendered him lean and wasted: and so evilness of state or condition.

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