emaciate

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To make extremely thin or wasted

Anorexics ignore that sustained emaciation ends in starvation.

To become extremely thin or wasted
to waste away in flesh
{v} to lose flesh, waste, pine away, decay
cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
Emaciated
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh
To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him
grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy
{f} make lean, make thin; become lean, become thin
emaciated
Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease

The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.

emaciated
Simple past tense and past participle of emaciate
emaciation
The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition
emaciated
{a} grown thin or lean, wasted
Emaciation
emaceration
emaciated
A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin and weak because of illness or lack of food. horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners. extremely thin from lack of food or illness (emaciatus, past participle of emaciare, from macer )
emaciated
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
emaciated
past of emaciate
emaciated
{s} very thin and malnutritioned
emaciation
The act of making very lean
emaciation
{i} leanness, thinness, wasting away of the flesh
emaciation
extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
emaciate

    Hyphenation

    e·ma·ci·ate

    Turkish pronunciation

    îmeyşieyt

    Pronunciation

    /əˈmāsʜēˌāt/ /ɪˈmeɪʃiːˌeɪt/

    Etymology

    () From Latin emaciare (“to make lean, cause to waste away”) ex- (“out”) + macies (“leanness”) macer (“thin”)
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