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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: emaciated adj : 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}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}]
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