emaciate

To emaciate is defined as to cause to grow abnormally thin and lean.

(verb)

When you have cancer and it makes you too sick to eat so you lose 50 pounds and get very weak, this is an example of when the cancer emaciates you.

See emaciate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to cause to become abnormally lean; cause to lose much flesh or weight, as by starvation or disease

Origin: < L emaciatus, pp. of emaciare, to make lean < e-, out + macies, leanness < macer, lean < IE base *mak- > OE mæger, lean

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See emaciate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

Origin:

Origin: Latin ēmaciāre, ēmaciāt-

Origin: : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex-

Origin: + maciāre, to make thin; see māk- in Indo-European roots

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