emaciated
adjective /ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd/, /ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd/
/ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd/, /ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd/
- thin and weak, usually because of illness or lack of food
- He was thirty, but looked fifty, with pale skin, hopeless eyes and an emaciated body, covered in sores.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- become
- …
- severely
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emaciat- ‘made thin’, from the verb emaciare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + macies ‘leanness’.