Associations to the word «Emaciated»
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Wiktionary
EMACIATED, adjective. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
EMACIATED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of emaciate
Dictionary definition
EMACIATED, adjective. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.