emaciate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: e=ma=ci=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

emaciate, v. i. [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.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

emaciate, v. t. 

 To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.  [1913 Webster]

emaciate, a. [L. emaciatus, p. p.].

 Emaciated.  T. Warton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

emaciate, v.tr. (esp. as emaciated adj.) make abnormally thin or feeble.

Derivative

emaciation n.

Etymology

L emaciare emaciat- (as E-, macies leanness)

THESAURUS

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