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[syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Emaciate \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
emaciated \emaciated\ adj.
having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under
the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.
Syn: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
wasted.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
emaciated
adj 1: 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,
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
skeletal, wasted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "emaciated":
Sanforized, anorectic, anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony,
brittle, cadaverous, consumed, consumptive, corky, corpselike,
desiccated, drawn, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, gaunt, haggard,
half-starved, hollow-eyed, jejune, lean, marantic, marasmic,
papery, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, phthisic, pinched,
poor, preshrunk, puny, scrawny, sear, sere, shriveled,
shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, spare, starved,
starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin, underfed, undernourished, wasted,
wasted away, wasting away, weazened, weazeny, wilted, withered,
wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled