vverb.changecause to grow thin or weakSynset:emaciate macerate waste
Examples:- The treatment emaciated him
Derivationally Related Form:macerationwastageemaciationwasting
Hypernyms:debilitate drain enfeeble
Inherited Hypernyms:wasteenfeebleweakenchange
Causes:emaciate
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody
vverb.changegrow weak and thin or waste away physicallyExamples:- She emaciated during the chemotherapy
Derivationally Related Form:emaciation
Hypernyms:change state turn
Inherited Hypernyms:emaciatechange statechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
adj satadj.allvery thin especially from disease or hunger or coldSynset:cadaverous gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
Examples:- a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
- eyes were haggard and cavernous
- small pinched faces
- kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Antonyms:fat
Derivationally Related Form:gauntness
Inherited Hypernyms:cadaverous
Similar to:lean thin