emaciated Definition
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emaciate
verb
- emaciated, emaciating
1. To make (a person or animal) extremely thin, especially through illness or starvation, etc.
adj
- Extremely thin, especially through illness or starvation
- Thesaurus: gaunt, thin, haggard, pinched, lank, lean, skeletal, scrawny, cadaverous, atrophied, wasted; Antonym: plump, well-fed.
noun
- Extreme leanness or wasting of the body caused by malnutrition, parasitic infestation or disease.
