Affected by or suffering from dropsy; swollen with abnormal fluid accumulation.
From 'dropsy' with the past participle or adjectival suffix '-ed,' creating an adjective meaning 'having dropsy,' parallel to words like 'diseased' or 'affected.'
In Shakespeare's time, 'dropsied' would have been a recognizable term for the bloated appearance of someone suffering from serious fluid retention—now it's archaic, but it captures that vivid visual specificity.
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