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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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