Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cause to lose flesh gradually; waste the flesh of; reduce to leanness: as, great suffering emaciates the body.
  • To lose flesh gradually; become lean, as by disease or pining; waste away, as flesh.
  • Thin; wasted; greatly reduced in flesh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean.
  • adjective Emaciated.
  • intransitive verb To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make extremely thin or wasted
  • verb intransitive To become extremely thin or wasted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb grow weak and thin or waste away physically
  • verb cause to grow thin or weak

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin ēmaciāre, ēmaciāt- : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex– + maciāre, to make thin; see māk- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin emaciare ("to make lean, cause to waste away"), from ex- ("out") + macies ("leanness"), from macer ("thin")

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  • Make very thin and weak. When you don not eat it makes you emaciate.

    December 6, 2010

  • Not eating makes one emaciated.

    December 6, 2010