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e·ma·ci·at·ed

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–adjective

marked by emaciation.

[Origin: 1655–65; emaciate + -ed²

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—Synonyms thin, wasted, puny, gaunt, haggard, scrawny.

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e·ma·ci·ate

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–verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.

[Origin: 1640–50; < L émaciātus, wasted away, equiv. to é- e- + maciātus, ptp. of maciāre to produce leanness (maci(és) leanness + -ātus -ate¹)

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tr. & intr.v. e·ma·ci·at·ed, e·ma·ci·at·ing, e·ma·ci·ates
To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.

[Latin ēmaciāre, ēmaciāt- : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + maciāre, to make thin; see māk- in Indo-European roots.]

e·ma'ci·a'tion n.

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emaciated
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony]

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emaciated [iˈmeisieitid] adjective

having become very thin (through illness, starvation etc)

Arabic:	نَحيل، هَزيل
Chinese (Simplified):	憔悴的
Chinese (Traditional):	憔悴的
Czech:	vyhublý, vyzáblý
Danish:	udmarvet; underernæret
Dutch:	uitgemergeld
Estonian:	kurtunud
Finnish:	riutunut
French:	amaigri
German:	abgezehrt
Greek:	αποστεωμένος, σκελετωμένος
Hungarian:	girhes
Icelandic:	horaður
Indonesian:	kurus
Italian:	emaciato

Japanese:	やせ衰えた
Korean:	쇠약한, 여윈
Latvian:	novājināts; novājējis
Lithuanian:	sunykęs, išsekęs
Norwegian:	radmager, uttært
Polish:	wychudzony
Portuguese (Brazil):	emaciado
Portuguese (Portugal):	macilento
Romanian:	slăbit
Russian:	изнурённый;истощённый
Slovak:	vychudnutý
Slovenian:	shujšan
Spanish:	demacrado
Swedish:	utmärglad, avtärd
Turkish:	bir deri bir kemik