emaciate

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There's a haunting picture there of an emaciated man who climbs trees to gather toddy.

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cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

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verb

cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

verb

grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for emaciate.

verb

cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

verb

grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

Example sentences

There's a haunting picture there of an emaciated man who climbs trees to gather toddy.

Someone can be obese in the lower half of the body and emaciated in the top half or vice-versa.

> Someone can be obese in the lower half of the body and emaciated in the top half or vice-versa.

If they live into old age and become emaciated and weak, their bodies are useless to me. Aside from perhaps companionship, they have not had a net positive impact on my life.

Chrome now looks like a half-burnt Firefox, with an emaciated URL in a separate box from what has effectively become a search bar.

You have to poke around the countryside and find the emaciated political prisoners and the mass graves to figure out who the bad guys are.

"There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity.

It's to make sure we don't have kids begging in the street rather than going to school, that we don't have emaciated children nutrient-deficient, lowering their IQs by nutrition -- no fault of their own.