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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" |
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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
adjectivePhysically haggard:
Idiom: skin and bones.
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Translations
نَحيل، هَزيل
udmarvetunderernæret
girhes
horaîur
išsekęssulysimassumenkimas
novājējisnovājināts
bir deri bir kemik
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[ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd] adj (= thin) [person] → émacié(e); [body] → décharné(e)e-mail E-mail, email [ˈiːmeɪl] (=electronic mail) n
vt
(= send e-mail to) [+ person] → envoyer un e-mail à
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[ɪˈmeɪsɪˌeɪtɪd] adj → emaciato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
emaciated
(iˈmeisieitid) adjective having become very thin (through illness, starvation etc).
eˌmaciˈation nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
emaciated
a. enflaquecido-a; excesivamente delgado-a.
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emaciated
adj severamente enflaquecido, demacradoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.