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Answer for the clue "Dieter to the max ", 8 letters:
anorexic

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to, or suffering from anorexia nervosa. 2 thin, skinny n. 1 Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa. 2 A medicine which suppresses appetite.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876; see anorexia + -ic . The immediate source or model is perhaps French anorexique . As a noun meaning "person with anorexia nervosa" it is attested from 1913.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin [syn: anorectic ] n. a person suffering from anorexia nervosa [syn: anorectic ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And I was getting thin, and she thought I was anorexic . ▪ And, in similar circumstances, the anorexic can always starve herself again. ▪ Both the anorexic and the mystic are impervious to this simple chain of events. ▪ ...

Usage examples of anorexic.

Perhaps Anne had paid her fee for some kind of miracle cure for her waiflike, nearly anorexic body.

A young, bored, anorexic girl flicked the pages of a Simone De Beauvoir novel.

The current fad in body design, for humanoform females, was towards a flat-breasted, hipless, buttock-less shape that looked like an anorexic male or a dying lizard.

Beryl would be on her way back to Alaska, and Nance the anorexic was about to become my sister-in-law.

His glaring eyes bulged dangerously The other man looked positively anorexic, with thin, pale arms showing below an olive drab T-shirt that flapped over ancient Army fatigue trousers and scabrous sandals.

I wondered if at one time she had been anorexic: I had known anorexic girls at school.

The secretary notes that anorexic aesthetic -- felt nauseous and did in fact vomit.

But the Mother Superior will talk to Aileen every day, and she told me she's had a lot of experience with anorexics.

The important thing is she knows all about anorexics, and she'll watch Aileen like a hawk and supervise her diet.

Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.

For some reason -undoubtedly sociological - those assholes tend to fall into two categories: gordos disgustos or speed freak anorexics.

Feeney said after they'd managed to muscle their way on and snag two of the seats designed for the narrow asses of twelve-year-old anorexics.

Was that the way anorexics felt—as though normal nourishment were stuffing them?

Was that the way anorexics feltas though normal nourishment were stuffing them?

Plus, Cleo knows she'd better come up with a new pose, something that makes her look like a sensitive artiste instead of just another big-eyed anorexic brat.