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Emaciate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Emaciate has 2 senses
- emaciate(v = verb.change) macerate, waste - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" is one way to debilitate, drain, enfeeble
- emaciate(v = verb.change) Array - grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy" is one way to change state, turn
Derived form noun emaciation1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
Derived form noun emaciation1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
Emaciate, v. i. [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See Meager.].
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Emaciate, v. t.
To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him. [1913 Webster]
Emaciate, a. [L. emaciatus, p. p.].
Emaciated. T. Warton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Emaciate, v.tr. (esp. as emaciated adj.) make abnormally thin or feeble.
Derivative
emaciation n.
Etymology
L emaciare emaciat- (as E-, macies leanness)
THESAURUS
Emaciate
Sanforize, atrophy, attenuate, consume, consume away, dilute, dribble away, dry up, emacerate, macerate, parch, pine away, preshrink, rarefy, run to seed, run to waste, sear, shrink, shrivel, subtilize, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, waste, waste away, water, water down, weaken, weazen, wither, wither away, wizen
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