noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't be such a hypochondriac - it's only a cold!
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She's a bit of a hypochondriac - always looking up her minor illnesses in a medical book.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger.
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It was evident from the young man's circumspect excitement that he thought he'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac .
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The jetset hostess was a hypochondriac who could not manage without sleeping pills.
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They seemed to think I was a professional hypochondriac .
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We were all, it is fair to say, hypochondriacs.