anorectic
Americanadjective
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Rarely anorectous having no appetite.
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causing a loss of appetite.
noun
Etymology
Origin of anorectic
Example Sentences
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Finally, the stunning “The Quickening” juxtaposes the birth of her daughter with her former anorectic years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2019
Apparently, she felt that only the most anorectic frame would permit her to wear the chic, made-to-order French outfits she favored.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today's staff, including deliverers, numbers only 600, anorectic by the overstuffed standards of Fleet Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the weeks that followed, however, she found that her appetite had vanished, and she lost ten pounds, leading her friends to worry that she was becoming anorectic.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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