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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emaciated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
▪ He obviously looked ill, but what I found terrible was the look of starvation on his emaciated body and face.
▪ I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.
▪ Looking at her emaciated body, it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place.
▪ The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
▪ Its emaciated body is then promptly eaten by its elders so no meat is wasted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His emaciated body shivered uncontrollably.
▪ News came of the famine, and there were pictures of emaciated children on the TV.
▪ Towards the end of his life he looked emaciated, his cheeks hollow and his eyes sunken.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everyone in London looks pale, delicate and emaciated or suntanned and emaciated.
▪ He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury, whom I have not seen before.
▪ He was emaciated and half his weight.
▪ I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.
▪ Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
▪ She was a small, emaciated mouse who wore a perpetually martyred expression.
▪ The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
▪ Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter, spluttering wildly, her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
emaciated

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emaciated

1660s, past participle adjective from emaciate.

Wiktionary
emaciated
  1. thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease. v

  2. (en-past of: emaciate)

WordNet
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]

Usage examples of "emaciated".

Seward rose from his sick-bed, pale, emaciated, and sorrowful, to persuade his associates in the Government, of the wisdom and necessity of adopting them.

Japanese woman on a bare stage, gesturing in the stylized manner of Noh drama, and it ends seventy-five minutes later with a naked man, emaciated and aphasic, trying desperately to tell us something.

The sand-diviner of the red bazaar, slipping like a reptile under the waving arms and between the furious bodies of the beggars, stood up before her with a smile on his wounded face, stretched out to her his emaciated hands with a fawning, yet half satirical, gesture of desire.

He was dancing with a rickety liveliness, his goatish legs and shriveled body giving him the look of an emaciated satyr.

Behind Kyrre I could just make out the grotesque, emaciated features of Weiner.

Europe has now sunk netherward to its far-off position as in the Fore Scene, and it is beheld again as a prone and emaciated figure of which the Alps form the vertebrae, and the branching mountainchains the ribs, the Spanish Peninsula shaping the head of the ecorche.

Like the odalisque, the moon seems filled to overflowing with sweetmeats and sperm, but the haze through which it rises is emaciated, phlegm-choked, and dappled with sores that almost certainly are malignant.

But he was not much taller than Sneezy, whose people were all emaciated and elongated by human standards.

Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.

Against the softness and luxury the killer looked like a skull at a feast: tall, horribly emaciated, eyes smoldering in the blotched skin of his face.

He found Cal Winsley, an emaciated, pockmarked man in his midthirties, for whom Bret had about as much use as he did for Storey.

Imagine sixty winters heaped upon a face plastered with rouge, a blotched and pimpled complexion, emaciated and gaunt features, all the ugliness of libertinism stamped upon the countenance of that creature relining upon the sofa.

The sufferer from leucorrhea becomes pale and emaciated, the eyes dull and heavy, the functions of the skin, stomach and bowels become deranged, more or less pain in the head is experienced, sometimes accompanied with dizziness, palpitation is common, and, as the disease progresses, the blood becomes impoverished, the feet and ankles are swollen, the mind is apprehensive and melancholy, and very frequently the function of generation is injured, resulting in complete sterility.

Humbled by a public confession, emaciated by fasting and clothed in sackcloth, the penitent lay prostrate at the door of the assembly, imploring with tears the pardon of his offences, and soliciting the prayers of the faithful.

The churchman had grown leaner in the ten years since Sparhawk had last seen him, and his face looked grey and emaciated.