Emaciate
[ɪ'meɪsɪeɪt] or [ɪ'meʃɪ,et]
Definition
(verb.) grow weak and thin or waste away physically; 'She emaciated during the chemotherapy'.
Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lean, thin, lank, attenuated, wasted, gaunt, skinny, meagre, worn to a shadow, reduced to a skeleton.
Checker: Merle
Definition
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.
Checked by Abby
Examples
- He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is the figure of a youth whose face is hollow and whose eyes have an emaciated glare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Typist: Osborn