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EMACIATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Example:
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Synonyms:
cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb emaciate
Context examples:
My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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