[ˈkrɒnɪk] adj (invalid, disease ) → cronico/a (fig ) (liar, drunkard ) → incallito/a (fam ) (weather, actor ) → allucinante

(especially of a disease) lasting a long time. a chronic illness. chronies مُزمن، مُتأصّل хроничен crônico chronický chronisch. ständig kronisk; vedvarende χρόνιος crónico krooniline مزمن؛ کهنه krooninen chronique כרוני पुराना, चिरकालिक kroničan krónikus, idült menahun langvinnur, þrálátur, krónískur cronico 慢性の 만성적인 chroniškas hronisks kronik chronisch kronisk. stadig. evig chroniczny مزمن، اوږد، څنډن (دډيرې مودې) crónico cronic хронический chronický kroničen hroničan kronisk เรื้อรัง kronik. sürekli. devamlı 慢性的(疾病) хронічний; застарілий قدیم بیماری mãn tính 长期的，慢性的

chroniese بصورة مُزْمِنَه хронично cronicamente chronicky chronisch kroniskt; vedvarende χρόνια crónicamente krooniliselt بطور مزمن kroonisesti chroniquement בְּצוָּרה כְרוֹנִית प्राचीन काल से kroničan krónikusan secara kronis þrálátlega, varanlega cronicamente 慢性的に 만성적으로 chroniškai hroniski dengan kronik chronisch kronisk chronicznie د وخت له نظره cronicamente cronic хронически chronicky kronično hronično kroniskt เรื้อรัง kronik bir şekilde, süregelen 慢性地 хронічно قدیم طور سے một cách kinh niên 长期地，慢性地

a. crónico-a, de larga duración, de efecto prolongado.

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Having no top to its head, she tied on a neat little cap, and as both arms and legs were gone, she hid these deficiencies by folding it in a blanket and devoting her best bed to this chronic invalid.

Now, between Sam and Aunt Chloe there had existed, from ancient times, a sort of chronic feud, or rather a decided coolness; but, as Sam was meditating something in the provision department, as the necessary and obvious foundation of his operations, he determined, on the present occasion, to be eminently conciliatory; for he well knew that although "Missis' orders" would undoubtedly be followed to the letter, yet he should gain a considerable deal by enlisting the spirit also.

The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery.

There is no positive disease; there is only a chronic feebleness -- a fatty degeneration -- a want of vital power in the organ itself.

I lived in a state of chronic uneasiness respecting my behaviour to Joe.

Vitus's Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly destroyed.

This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing, -- a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.

Miss Anne, indeed, if her chronic headaches could have been accounted for by a pathetic story of disappointed love, might have had some romantic interest attached to her: but no such story had either been known or invented concerning her, and the general impression was quite in accordance with the fact, that both the sisters were old maids for the prosaic reason that they had never received an eligible offer.

She suffered--she told me it was a Moultrie castemark--from some obscure form of chronic bronchitis, complicated with spasm of the glottis; and, in a dead, flat voice, with a sunken eye that looked and saw not, told me what washes, gargles, pastilles, and inhalations she had proved most beneficial.

It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.

Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening, glances wearily towards the candlesticks and heaves a noiseless sigh.