emaciate
to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
Origin of emaciate
1Words Nearby emaciate
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How to use emaciate in a sentence
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter RaleighSickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
Hernando Cortez | John S. C. AbbottThe features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.
Fruits of Philosophy | Charles KnowltonFamine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.
The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power | John S. C. AbbottHe retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.
The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for emaciate
/ (ɪˈmeɪsɪˌeɪt) /
(usually tr) to become or cause to become abnormally thin
Origin of emaciate
1Derived forms of emaciate
- emaciation, noun
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