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  • 11emaciated — 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 …

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  • 12emaciated — adjective emaciated bodies Syn: thin, skeletal, bony, gaunt, wasted; scrawny, skinny, scraggy, skin and bones, rawboned, sticklike, waiflike; starved, underfed, undernourished, underweight, half starved; cadaverous, s …

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  • 13emaciated — adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (Freq. 2) 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… …

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  • 14emaciated — /i may shee ay tid/, adj. marked by emaciation. [1655 65; EMACIATE + ED2] Syn. thin, wasted, puny, gaunt, haggard, scrawny. * * * …

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  • 15emaciated — Synonyms and related words: Sanforized, anorectic, anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, brittle, cadaverous, consumed, consumptive, corky, corpselike, desiccated, drawn, dried up, emacerated, emaciate, gaunt, haggard, half starved, hollow eyed …

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  • 16emaciated — e|ma|ci|at|ed [ ı meıʃi,eıtəd ] adjective extremely thin because of serious illness or lack of food ╾ e|ma|ci|a|tion [ ı,meıʃi eıʃn ] noun uncount …

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  • 17emaciated — e ma·ci·at·ed || tɪd adj. very thin and malnutritioned e·ma·ci·ate || ɪ meɪʃɪeɪt v. make lean, make thin; become lean, become thin …

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  • 18emaciated — [ɪ meɪsɪeɪtɪd, ɪ meɪʃ ] adjective abnormally thin and weak. Derivatives emaciation noun Origin C17: from L. emaciat , emaciare make thin …

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  • 19emaciated — a. See emaciate …

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  • 20emaciated — adj gaunt, drawn, haggard, pinched, hollow eyed, withered, shriveled, shrunken, dried up, wizened, Brit. Dial. wizen; scrawny, scraggy, spare, skinny, thin, lean, lanky, lank, slim, slender, attenuate, attenuated, tenuous; atrophied, atrophic,… …

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