From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Emaciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emaciating}.] [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See {Meager}.] To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. ''He emaciated and pined away.'' --Sir T. Browne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, verb (used with an object) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, adjective [L. emaciatus, p. p.] Emaciated. ''Emaciate steeds.'' --T. Warton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" [syn: {waste}, {macerate}]
2: grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "emaciate": Sanforize, atrophy, attenuate, consume, consume away, dilute, dribble away, dry up, emacerate, macerate, parch, pine away, preshrink, rarefy, run to seed, run to waste, sear, shrink, shrivel, subtilize, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, waste, waste away, water, water down, weaken, weazen, wither, wither away, wizen
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