emaciate

Speech parts

1. emaciate - Adjective

2. emaciate - Verb

Meaning

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

Emaciated.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

waste macerate haggard ret low poor thin decay blow exhaust consume spare sparse wasted weaken
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Antonyms

large full fed powerful solid fat
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Hypernyms

turn drain debilitate enfeeble change state

Derivatives

emaciated emaciating

Examples

She emaciated during the chemotherapy Source: Internet

The treatment emaciated him Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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