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View synonyms for emaciate
emaciate
[ ih-mey-shee-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
, e·ma·ci·at·ed, e·ma·ci·at·ing.
- to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
emaciate
/ ɪˈmeɪsɪˌeɪt /
verb
- usually tr to become or cause to become abnormally thin
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Derived Forms
- eˌmaciˈation, noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of emaciate1
C17: from Latin ēmaciāre to make lean, from macer thin
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Example Sentences
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
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Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
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The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.
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Famine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.
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He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.
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