Emaciate
[ɪ'meɪsɪeɪt] or [ɪ'meʃɪ,et]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) grow weak and thin or waste away physically; 'She emaciated during the chemotherapy'.
校對:路易斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
(v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
(a.) Emaciated.
錄入:昆西
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Lean, thin, lank, attenuated, wasted, gaunt, skinny, meagre, worn to a shadow, reduced to a skeleton.
整理:默尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make meagre or lean: to deprive of flesh: to waste.—v.i. to become lean: to waste away.—p.adjs. Emā′ciate -d.—n. Emaciā′tion the condition of becoming emaciated or lean: leanness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It is the figure of a youth whose face is hollow and whose eyes have an emaciated glare. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
編輯:奥斯本