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Emaciate

Emaciate Meaning & Definition
Emaciate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Emaciate?

[v] grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
[v] cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Emaciate: macerate | waste

Related Terms | Find terms related to Emaciate: atrophy | attenuate | consume | consume away | dilute | dribble away | dry up | emacerate | macerate | parch | pine away | preshrink | rarefy | run to seed | run to waste | Sanforize | sear | shrink | shrivel | subtilize | thin | thin away | thin down | thin out | waste | waste away | water | water down | weaken | weazen | wither | wither away | wizen

See Also | change state | debilitate | drain | emaciate | enfeeble | turn

Emaciate In Webster's Dictionary

\E*ma"ci*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emaciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emaciating}.] [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See {Meager}.] To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. ``He emaciated and pined away.'' --Sir T. Browne.
\E*ma"ci*ate\, v. t. To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
\E*ma"ci*ate\, a. [L. emaciatus, p. p.] Emaciated. ``Emaciate steeds.'' --T. Warton.

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