emaciate

[US]/ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪt/
[UK]/ɪˈmeʃɪˌet/

Translation

English definition:
vt. To make thin; to make weak
vi. To become thin.
Word Forms
Past Tenseemaciated
Present Participleemaciating
Third Person Singularemaciates
Past Participleemaciated
Pluralemaciates

Example Sentences

she was so emaciated she could hardly stand.

A long illness had emaciated my father.

his severely emaciated body

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone.

Real-world Examples

His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless.

Source: Brave New World

In no time at all, the disease had emaciated her.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

He was emaciated, the bones of his face sticking out sharply against the yellowish skin.

Source: 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I remember when they brought you back to school, emaciated and wrapped up in a shawl.

Source: Education of Love

Also, that your father was at one time much emaciated by illness.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Four)

The next night, an emaciated man with long matted black hair obscuring his face was seen walking towards them from the darkness, and that was enough.

Source: Learn English with Matthew.

Worple, who was a small, stout, bespectacled man, grabbed Harry's hand and shook it enthusiastically; the vampire Sanguini, who was tall and emaciated with dark shadows under his eyes, merely nodded.

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Several months elapsed before I was able to quit my bed; and when at length I was moved to a Sopha, I was so faint, spiritless, and emaciated, that I could not cross the room without assistance.

Source: Monk (Part 1)

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