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Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.
  2. adj. lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water
  3. adj. abnormally afraid of water
  4. Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.
  5. Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies;as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.
  6. j:100 a. lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water s. abnormally afraid of water