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Found 1 definition: emaciate.

Pos: Verb (usu participle)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Verb emaciate has 2 senses

1. emaciate(v = verb.change) macerate, waste - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
is one way to debilitate, drain, enfeeble
Derived form noun emaciation₁
Sample sentences: Something ----s somebody

2. emaciate(v = verb.change) - grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
is one way to change state, turn
Derived form noun emaciation₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

[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)