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emaciated [im-mace-ee-ate-id] Adjective extremely thin through illness or lack of food [Latin macer thin] emaciation n
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Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about four- teen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so. Famished and emaciated as they were, to continue forward would be to perish; their only chance seemed to be to regain the river, and retrace their steps up its banks. A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing. |
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