Emaciated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  emaciated \emaciated\ adj.
     having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under
     the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.
  
     Syn: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
          wasted.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emaciated
       adj : 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}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
              {wasted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "emaciated":
     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