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emaciated

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/ / /-ˈmeɪ.si-/ / /ɪˈmeɪ.siˌeɪ.tɪd/

adj

  1. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

    The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.

    She arrived at a resort in December 2024, extremely emaciated — staff described her as “so weak she couldn’t walk on her own,” with sunken eyes, protruding bones, yellow fingernails and decaying teeth.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of emaciate