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e·ma·ci·ate

 (ĭ-mā′shē-āt′)
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

(ɪˈmeɪsɪˌeɪtɪd)
adj
abnormally thin
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Adj.1.emaciated - 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"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
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emaciated

adjective skeletal, thin, weak, lean, pinched, skinny, wasted, gaunt, bony, haggard, atrophied, scrawny, attenuate, attenuated, undernourished, scraggy, half-starved, cadaverous, macilent (rare) horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners
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emaciated

adjective
Physically haggard:
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Translations
نَحيل، هَزيل
udmarvetunderernæret
girhes
horaîur
išsekęssulysimassumenkimas
novājējisnovājināts
bir deri bir kemik

emaciated

[ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd] ADJdemacrado
to become emaciateddemacrarse
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emaciated

[ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd] adj (= thin) [person] → émacié(e); [body] → décharné(e)e-mail E-mail, email [ˈiːmeɪl] (=electronic mail)
n
(= system) → e-mail m
by e-mail → par e-mail
(= message) → e-mail m
to send an e-mail → envoyer un e-mail
vt
(= send e-mail to) [+ person] → envoyer un e-mail à
[+ file, attachment] → envoyer par e-mail
to e-mail sth to sb [+ file] → envoyer qch à qn par e-mail; [+ one's views, comments, questions] → envoyer qch à qn par e-mail
modif [system, service] → d'e-mail
e-mail address → adresse f e-mail
email account → compte m e-mail
e-mail message → e-mail m
e-mail server → serveur m internet
e-mail traffic → trafic m internet
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emaciated

adjabgezehrt, ausgezehrt, stark abgemagert; to become emaciatedstark abmagern
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emaciated

[ɪˈmeɪsɪˌeɪtɪd] adjemaciato/a
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emaciated

(iˈmeisieitid) adjective
having become very thin (through illness, starvation etc).
eˌmaciˈation noun
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emaciated

a. enflaquecido-a; excesivamente delgado-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

emaciated

adj severamente enflaquecido, demacrado
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References in classic literature ?
Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about four- teen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
Pride, contempt, defiance, stubbornness, submission, lamentation, succeeded one another; so did varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous colour, emaciated hands and figures.
His emaciated regiment bustled forth with undiminished fierceness when its time came.
Famished and emaciated as they were, to continue forward would be to perish; their only chance seemed to be to regain the river, and retrace their steps up its banks.
A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
But the same second he looked round at the young man, and gave the nervous jerk of his head and neck that Konstantin knew so well, as if his neckband hurt him; and a quite different expression, wild, suffering, and cruel, rested on his emaciated fact.
It becomes bare, denuded of its foliage, and grows visibly emaciated. It is petty, it is poor, it is nothing.
His shirt was hanging open, and his emaciated chest, covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly.
When they came close to the shore they saw an emaciated creature with scant white locks tangled and matted.
"Oh, yes; oh, yes, I do indeed repent." And he struck his breast with his emaciated fist.
With all their eagerness to arrive within reach of succor, such was their feeble and emaciated condition, that they advanced but slowly.
He supposed it was true that she had loved him; he thought of the emaciated body, in the brown dress, hanging from the nail in the ceiling; and he shuddered.