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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.
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Emaciate
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Example Sentences
- Deer and elk slowly emaciate and glaze over mentally under the effects of the chronic wasting disease prion.
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emaciate
1640s, from L. emaciatus, pp. of emaciare "make lean, waste away," from ex- "out" + macies "leanness," from macer "thin" (see macro-).
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