- emaciated
- [[t]ɪme͟ɪsieɪtɪd, -me͟ɪʃ-[/t]]
ADJ-GRADEDA person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin and weak because of illness or lack of food.
...horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners.
English dictionary. 2008.
emaciated
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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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
emaciated — (adj.) 1660s, pp. adjective from EMACIATE (Cf. emaciate) … Etymology dictionary
emaciated — [adj] undernourished; thin anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, like a bag of bones*, meager, peaked, pinched, scrawny, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones*, skinny,… … New thesaurus
emaciated — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ abnormally thin and weak. DERIVATIVES emaciation noun. ORIGIN from Latin emaciare make thin … English terms dictionary
Emaciated — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
emaciated — adjective /əˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd,əˈmeɪsieɪtɪd/ Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease. The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly. See Also: emaciate, emaciation … Wiktionary
emaciated — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look ▪ become, grow ADVERB ▪ severely ▪ his severely emaciated body … Collocations dictionary
emaciated — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. starveling, thin, haggard, wasted, gaunt, drawn, scrawny, skin and bones (inf.). See narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gaunt, starved, wasted; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… … English dictionary for students
emaciated — e|ma|ci|a|ted [ıˈmeıʃieıtıd, si ] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: emaciatus, past participle of emaciare, from macer thin ] extremely thin from lack of food or illness ▪ The prisoners were ill and emaciated. >emaciation [ıˌmeıʃiˈeıʃən,… … Dictionary of contemporary English
emaciated — adjective extremely thin from lack of food or illness: The prisoners were ill and emaciated. emaciation /I meISi eISFn, si / noun (U): in an advanced state of emaciation … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
