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emaciate

verb intransitive

[L. emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. small; Eng. meager, meek.]

To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.

emaciate

verb transitive
To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness. Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.

emaciate

adjective
Thin; wasted.