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Emaciated

adjective

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted. "A nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" , "Eyes were haggard and cavernous" , "Small pinched faces" , "Kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

Emaciate

verb

(past & past part. emaciated; pres. part. emaciating)

Cause to grow thin or weak. Synonyms: macerate, waste.

Grow weak and thin or waste away physically.

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"Emaciated" Quotes from Famous Books

... unloading of the ship. They were of all ages and complexions, from coal-black, grizzle-headed old negroes leaning on canes to half-starved and half-naked Cuban children, whose tallowy faces and distended abdomens were unmistakable evidences of fever and famine. They were not, as a rule, emaciated, nor did they seem to be in the last stages of starvation; but the eagerness with which they crowded about the open ports of the steamer, and watched the bags of beans, rice, and corn-meal as they were brought out by the stevedores and placed on the little flat-cars of the tramway, showed ...

— Campaigning in Cuba • George Kennan

... first," said the German quietly. They could see that the man, who seemed to be an Arab, was frightfully emaciated. His head was bound up, and half-healed thorn-scars covered his body. Von Hofe beckoned them to come on, as he knelt beside the poor wretch, but as the boys came to his side a ...

— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney

... corner lay a tall man, pale and emaciated. He heard the slight noise at the door, and without turning his head, said: "Come ...

— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger

... invalid to her chamber. As we threaded the long passages, my sister's head rested on my bosom, her eyes were turned affectionately upward to my face, and several times I felt the gentle pressure of her emaciated hands, given in the fervour ...

— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... came," she told him. (Her gladness was always awful.) She led him into the sitting room and presented him to the tall emaciated sick man and the large placid woman who had watched over her ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

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