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Verb: emaciate  i'mey-shee`eyt
  1. Cause to grow thin or weak
    "The treatment emaciated him"
    - waste, macerate
     
  2. Grow weak and thin or waste away physically
    "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

Derived forms: emaciated, emaciates, emaciating

See also: emaciation

Type of: change state, debilitate, drain, enfeeble, turn

Encyclopedia: Emaciate

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