1. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   "emaciated bony hands"
   - bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

1. Cause to grow thin or weak
   "The treatment emaciated him"
   - waste, macerate 
2. Grow weak and thin or waste away physically
   "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

See also: emaciation, lean, thin

Type of: change state, debilitate, drain, enfeeble, turn

Encyclopedia: Emaciate

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