Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emaciated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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