Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making lean or thin in flesh.
- noun The state of becoming thin by gradual wasting of flesh; the state of being reduced to leanness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making very lean.
- noun The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of making very
lean . - noun The state of being
emaciated or reduced to excessiveleanness ; an excessively lean condition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
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Examples
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I think that emaciation is more often a sign of victimhood than cruelty.
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Bratman asserts that “emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such as rawfoodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession 2009
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Furthermore, Brown said FEMA suffered "emaciation" because anti-terror operations had become a priority for the administration.
Hurricane Katrina 2007
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The most visible problems, such as emaciation are the result of sheer emotional neglect.
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The most visible problems, such as emaciation are the result of sheer emotional neglect.
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[1] By cachexia is understood a condition of malnutrition and emaciation which is usually accompanied by a pale sallow color of the skin.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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_The symptoms_ are of a general character, such as emaciation, weakness, wasting of muscles and lameness.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Their turkeys, especially, are of that emaciation which is attributed among ourselves only to the turkey of Job; and as for the geese and ducks, they can only interest anatomists.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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"These patients all had other risk factors which included emaciation, starvation because they hadn't been fed, infection, cardiac failure, renal failure," said Marks.
'Angel of Death' Colin Norris could be cleared of insulin murders 2011
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There was something rare and stylish about Jobs, even in the emaciation of his final illness.
Why I feel such huge gratitude for Steve Jobs's life …. he shaped mine | Henry Porter 2011
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