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anorexic
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an·o·rex·ic  (n-rksk)
adj.
1. Suffering from or afflicted with anorexia nervosa.
2. Anorectic.
3. Characterized by severe economy of style and expression: "The book consists of nineteen rather anorexic stories, stripped of all but vestigial traces of emotion and often of plot" (Madison Smartt Bell).

ano·rexic n.
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Noun1.anorexic - a person suffering from anorexia nervosa
diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
Adj.1.anorexic - suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
Translations
anorexic [ænəˈrɛksɪk] adj, nanoréxico/a m/f
anorexic [ænəˈrɛksɪk] adj, nanorexique (m/f)
anorexic [ænəˈrɛksɪk] adjmagersüchtig
anorexic [ænəˈrɛksɪk] adj, nanoressico/a


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Heather Munro Prescott's "Anorexia Nervosa," for example, summarizes the class, cultural, and ethnic assumptions about anorectics, and concludes that "the standard image of anorexia nervosa as a privileged white girl's disease is increasingly being called into question.
 
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