emaciated

4 definitions found

emaciated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

  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]

emaciated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  emaciated
      adj 1: 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, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
             skeletal, wasted]

emaciated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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