"emaciated" in the verb sense
1. waste, emaciate, macerate
cause to grow thin or weak
"The treatment emaciated him"
2. emaciate
grow weak and thin or waste away physically
"She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
"emaciated" in the adjective sense
1. cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"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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