verb
- Cause to grow thin or weak.
- usage: "The treatment emaciated him"
- 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"
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