Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thin; wasted; greatly reduced in flesh.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean.
- adjective Emaciated.
- intransitive verb To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make extremely
thin orwasted - verb intransitive To become extremely thin or wasted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb grow weak and thin or waste away physically
- verb cause to grow thin or weak
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro: And No One Listened Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2011
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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.
Sneak Attack 2009
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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... 2008
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"I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent."
"Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer." Ann Althouse 2007
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I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent.
"Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer." Ann Althouse 2007
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His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
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"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 Marsden Hartley
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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 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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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 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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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 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
100001016886860 commented on the word emaciate
Make very thin and weak. When you don not eat it makes you emaciate.
December 6, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word emaciate
Not eating makes one emaciated.
December 6, 2010