scurvy

Converse of object

• prevent: A normal, well balanced diet will usually supply enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
• get: He said " this is the 20 th Century, how did you get scurvy?
• cause: A diet lacking in vitamin C can cause scurvy, a disease that affects the muscles, teeth, .. .
• cure: In 1928 vitamin C was isolated and shown to be the substance necessary to prevent and cure scurvy.
• eliminate: His older brother, Sir Gilbert Blane, a naval doctor, advocated the use of limejuice for sailors to eliminate scurvy.
• treat: The Royal Navy later used it - ineffectively, of course - to treat scurvy, an illness caused by vitamin deficiency.

Adjective modifier

• infantile: In 1877 he was the first to define a then mysterious childhood disease, which he named ' infantile scurvy ' .

Preposition: on

• voyage: Origin Probably arises from the practice of eating pomegranates as a source of Vitamin C, to guard against scurvy on long sea voyages.
• ship: Captain Cook was one of the most successful at combating scurvy on board ship by providing fresh lime or lemon juice.

Used with adjective complement

• prevent: For example, the label of a vitamin C supplement could state that vitamin C prevents scurvy.
• call: A deficiency in vitamin C leads to a disease called scurvy.
• have: While very few people actually have scurvy, even minor deficiencies of vitamin C can increase the incidence of bruising.

Modifies a noun

• grass: Look for plants such as sea pink, moss campion, scurvy grass, sea mayweed and lichens on the rocky foreshore.
• dog: Did ye ken it was talk like a pirate day, ye scurvy dogs?
• knave: Keelhaul the scurvy knaves, hoist the jolly roger!
• deficiency: While very few people actually have scurvy, even minor deficiencies of vitamin C can increase the incidence of bruising.
• crew: Plot Outline: The Governor's daughter, Elizabeth, is kidnaped by the pirate Captain Barbossa and his scurvy crew of rogues.
• trick: After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick.

Noun used with modifier

• ye: Did ye ken it was talk like a pirate day, ye scurvy dogs?
• disease: A deficiency of vitamin C causes the disease scurvy, which is rare in the United States.