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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMA'CIATED, pp. Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Emaciate E*ma"ci*ate, v. i. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin and weak because of illness or lack of food. ...horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See emaciate

Moby Thesaurus

Sanforized, anorectic, anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, brittle, cadaverous, consumed, consumptive, corky, corpselike, desiccated, drawn, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, gaunt, haggard, half-starved, hollow-eyed, jejune, lean, marantic, marasmic, papery, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, phthisic, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, scrawny, sear, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, spare, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin, underfed, undernourished, wasted, wasted away, wasting away, weazened, weazeny, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled