extenuatedadj.
/ɛkˈstɛnjuːeɪtɪd/ In senses of the verb.
a. Made slender; shrunken, emaciated.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 36 It is..more profitable for loose and extenuated bodies.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 5 b Their Faces become thin and extenuated.
1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Characters 19/1 The person of Dr. Fothergill was of a delicate, rather of an extenuated make.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 99 We..are getting too nervous, haggard, dyspeptic, extenuated.
b. Attenuated, rarefied.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > rarefied
subtiliate?a1425
rarefied1523
subtiliated1603
attenuated?1624
attenuate1626
subtilized1628
extenuated1661
1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1662) ii. ii. 33 Calling this extenuated substance a Funiculus.
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