Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cause to lose flesh gradually; waste the flesh of; reduce to leanness: as, great suffering emaciates the body.
- To lose flesh gradually; become lean, as by disease or pining; waste away, as flesh.
- Thin; wasted; greatly reduced in flesh.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
- v. To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean.
- adj. Emaciated.
WordNet 3.0
- v. grow weak and thin or waste away physically
- v. cause to grow thin or weak
Etymologies
- From Latin emaciare ("to make lean, cause to waste away"), from ex- ("out") + macies ("leanness"), from macer ("thin") (Wiktionary)
- Latin ēmaciāre, ēmaciāt- : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + maciāre, to make thin; see māk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For an industry that thrives on an if-it-bleeds-it-leads attitude, you have to wonder how jaded this industry is to allow someone to emaciate themselves right in public; right in front of them.”
The Huffington Post: Joe The Nerd Ferraro: And No One Listened
“A key component of that warfare by the ubër rich was to emaciate or destroy the unions through new laws restricting unionization, bankruptcy courts killing labor contracts, diversion of pension funds, abusive tactics against organizers, shipping jobs elsewhere and PR campaigns vilifying the very concept of collective bargaining to redress serious economic disadvantages.”
“Sometimes the poor creature will let their children literally emaciate in order to fund their habits, whilst all the while they know what they are doing but so damage is their capacity to reason that their entire physiological organism seizes to function adequately.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent.”
“I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent.”
“His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.”
“Truly I will, without food and without the least love of life, emaciate my limbs, like a she-snake (hibernating) within a Tala tree.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
“The heart of childhood, so divine for me", is but typical of a being so dragged, and emaciate with the tortures of the body, in earth places where no soul like his could ever be at home.”
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
“If this best of men, Jaya, my sire, does not rise up, I shall emaciate my own body, sitting on the field of battle.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
“Even here I shall emaciate my body by penances, engaged in serving the feet of the king and of these my mothers. ”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emaciate’.
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GRE 2014
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does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
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Manhattan Advanced 3
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hernesheir Not eating makes one emaciated. Dec 6, 2010
Alexis Perez Make very thin and weak. When you don not eat it makes you emaciate. Dec 6, 2010