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Emaciate   Listen
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Emaciate  v. i.  (past & past part. emaciated; pres. part. emaciating)  To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Emaciate" Quotes from Famous Books



... emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... Emaciate, in that ancient Delta-land: We here, full charged with our own maimed and dead, And coiled in throbbing conflicts slow and sore, Can soothe how slight these ails unmerited Of souls forlorn upon the facing shore! Where naked, gaunt, in endless band ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various



Words linked to "Emaciate" :   debilitate, emaciation, waste, macerate, turn, change state, enfeeble, drain



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