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emaciated
 
Adjective emaciated has 1 sense
  1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted - 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"
    Antonym: fat (indirect, via thin)
Verb emaciate has 2 senses
  1. waste, emaciate, macerate - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
    --1 is one way to enfeeble, debilitate, drain
    Derived form: noun emaciation1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. emaciate - grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
    --2 is one way to     change state, turn
    Derived form: noun emaciation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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