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Adjective: cadaverous  ku'da-vu-rus
  1. Very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
    "emaciated cadaverous hands";
    - bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
     
  2. Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
    "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end";
    - cadaveric

See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin

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