emaciating

Variant of emaciate

transitive verb emaciated, emaciating

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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