emaciated English

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What does emaciated mean?

emaciated

— adjective (= bony, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold emaciated bony hands 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

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emaciated English » English

thin

lean

skinny

gaunt

haggard

wasted

exhausted

weak

bony

frail

weaken

slim

sickly

pinched

cadaverous

become thin

worn away

withered

thin and weak

slender

skin and bones

skeletal

scrawny

impair

feeble

downcast

diminished

become skinny

be worn out

worn-out

worn thin

worn out

weedy

weakly

weakened

wasted away

waned

wan

very thin

very skinny

undernourished

thin and feeble

tattered

sunken

starving

sick

shrivelled

shabby

scraggy

prostrate

Topics emaciated topics

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Person Healthy Disease

Malnutrition, starvation

• What words describe someone who doesn't have enough food?
  starving malnourished anemic emaciated

States Big Thick

Thin person

• What words describe someone who is very thin?
  emaciated skeletal be skin and bones underweight gaunt