What is the meaning of emaciated?

verb

• Cause to grow thin or weak.
  • usage: "The treatment emaciated him"
  • synonyms: waste, emaciate, macerate
• Grow weak and thin or waste away physically.
  • usage: "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
  • synonyms: emaciate

adjective

• Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
  • usage: "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
  • synonyms: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted