emaciated

US: /ɪˈmeɪʃiˌeɪtɪd/
UK: /iːmˈe‍ɪsɪˌe‍ɪtɪd/


English Vietnamese dictionary


emaciated /i'meiʃietid/
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Advanced English dictionary


+ adjective
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.
emaciation noun [U]: She was very thin, almost to the point of emaciation.

Thesaurus dictionary


adj.
emaciate, atrophied, shrivelled, wizened, shrunken, haggard, gaunt, drawn, pinched, bony, skeletal, cadaverous, withered, wasted, consumptive, phthisic, anorexic or anorectic, wasting (away), scrawny, skinny, thin, lean, spare, undernourished, underfed, starved, half-starved:
The inmates of the camp were so emaciated they could scarcely stand.

Collocation dictionary


VERBS

be, look | become, grow

ADV.

painfully, severely
his severely emaciated body


Concise English dictionary


-tɪd
adj.
+very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
emaciates|emaciated|emaciatingɪ'meɪʃɪeɪt
verb
+cause to grow thin or weak
+grow weak and thin or waste away physically