emaciated

e·ma·ci·ate  (-msh-t)

tr. & intr.v. e·ma·ci·at·ed, e·ma·ci·at·ing, e·ma·ci·ates

To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.

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[Latin macire, macit- : -, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + macire, to make thin; see mk- in Indo-European roots.]

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e·maci·ation n.

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emaciated [im-mace-ee-ate-id]

Adjective

extremely thin through illness or lack of food [Latin macer thin]

emaciation n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

emaciated - 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" bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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emaciated

adjective skeletal, thin, weak, lean, pinched, skinny, wasted, gaunt, bony, haggard, atrophied, scrawny, attenuate, attenuated, undernourished, scraggy, half-starved, cadaverous, macilent (rare)

Translations

emaciated [ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd] adj → escuálido

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emaciated [ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd] adj → émacié(e) → décharné(e)

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emaciated [ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd] adj → abgezehrt, ausgezehrt

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emaciated [ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd] adj → emaciato/a