| 单词 | emaciated |
| 释义 | emaciated (once / 2500 pages) adj Someone who is dangerously skinny and skeletal-looking can be described as emaciated. It's probably how you'd start to look after a few weeks in the wilderness with only berries and bugs for dinner. The adjective emaciated evolved from the Latin emaciatus, meaning to “make lean, waste away.” An emaciated person or animal isn't just thin. They're bony, gaunt, and most likely undernourished, often from illness. So if an emaciated stray cat shows up on your doorstep, give it a bowl of milk and maybe pay a visit to the vet. WORD FAMILYemaciate: emaciated, emaciates, emaciating, emaciation USAGE EXAMPLESWhen a rescue boat brought him to Messina, on the northeastern tip of Sicily, in early September, Girmay was emaciated. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) Pitiful scenes of cheetah cubs lying emaciated and bewildered highlight one of the cruellest but least-publicised examples of illegal wildlife trafficking. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) Looking at Rialto today, it’s hard to imagine he was once emaciated and starving. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) adj very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold Syn bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin lacking excess flesh |
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