to emaciate

Examples

• All

• But, like shipwrecked sailors, nearly all of them appeared emaciated, and I could not imagine the reason.

  Academic text (2009)

• The POW sits in a wheelchair at Nixon's elbow, emaciated, the blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor around his neck.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The patients are emaciated, their faces and bodies covered with virulent sores.

  Fiction book (1992)

• When the dust clears, we see the two white mice standing there on the side of the road, shivering and emaciated.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And he was leaner, the weight that grew on him through the years trimmed away, his skin sallow, folded hands almost emaciated, his burial suit a dark blue flannel.

  Fiction book (1997)

• After several weeks in the hospital, he became so emaciated that his family hardly recognized him.

• The documentary showed the emaciated animals in the shelter, emphasizing the importance of adoption and care.

• Children in the famine-stricken area were left emaciated and in desperate need of food and medical attention.

Synonyms

W

to waste

vsto emaciate

143 5.1

To become thin and weak because of illness or a lack of food

is stronger, implying abnormal thinness rather than general weakening

M

to macerate

vsto emaciate

• Archaic

9.5

To make a person or animal very thin and weak by not eating enough

is more extreme, meaning abnormally thin and weak from illness or hunger

Antonyms

N

to nourish

49 3.2

To give food and care so a person, animal, or plant grows and stays healthy

F

to fatten

45 2.2

To make an animal gain weight and a sauce taste richer by giving more or richer food

How Thin

to waste away

7 5.5

to emaciate

3 8.9

to thin

38 1.4

to lose fat

4 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology