emaciated
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7.8
- adjective
- /ɪˈmeɪʃiˌeɪtɪd/
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emaciado
- After months without proper food, the dog became emaciated, with its ribs clearly visible.
- an emaciated man
- pale and emaciated
- old and emaciated
It may have been Steve is emaciated because, you know, he's been sick.
- It may have been Steve is emaciated because, you know, he's been sick.
- If I had done that, my face would have looked incredibly emaciated.
- And it is very much something that as you do get physically emaciated, your mental state also starts to deteriorate.
Examples
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Among the emaciated people sent westwards, was Anne Frank, who was taken to Belsen.
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What did they have, these emaciated victims who had lost their family, their home, their dignity, even their identity?
Academic text (2014) -
"Even a dog will bite its master," the tall emaciated man said.
Fiction book (1991) -
However, when hibernating animals appear after winter, they are languid and emaciated, their fat all gone.
Academic text (1996) -
Her rigidity made her seem even more gaunt, more emaciated, than I had previously perceived.
Fiction book (2001) -
Mr. Lamb turned out to be an emaciated man in his forties, with straight brown hair and sunken eyes.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Sarah looked at her husband and thought of Maggie's body, emaciated and inert under the coarse hospital sheets."
Fiction book (1992) -
Tertius gripped his sword harder and glared down at the emaciated young girl covering an even smaller girl.
Fiction book (1998) -
You see tubercular, gout-ridden, undernourished workers and their emaciated, half-starved children.
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The pictures weren't very pleasant to look at: emaciated creatures with agonized expressions, bruised, battered, and scarred.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.3
Very thin in a way that looks unhealthy
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4.2
Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy
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5.6
Very thin with almost no fat or muscle
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7.3
Very thin and pale from illness, hunger, or hard times
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3.1
Very thin and below a healthy weight for their age and height
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6.0
Very thin with bones showing under the skin
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5.6
A person or animal that does not have enough food and is weak
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3.4
Not having enough food to be healthy
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9.1
Very pale and thin, looking like a dead body
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7.0
Very thin person with little or no fat
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4.4
Not having enough food to stay healthy and grow
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5.5
Not getting enough food to stay healthy
Very thin and weak because of illness or lack of use
Not having enough food or nutrients to grow and stay healthy
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emaciated comes from Latin parts e- 'out' and macies 'thinness' or 'leanness', so it originally meant 'made thin'. So, when someone is emaciated, they have lost so much weight that their bones show and they look very thin from hunger or illness.