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Definition of emaciated adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

emaciated

adjective
 
/ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd/,
 
/ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd/
 
/ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd/,
 
/ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd/
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  1. 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.
    Topics Social issuesc2, Health problemsc2
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    • be
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    • …
    adverb
    • severely
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    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’.
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