emaciate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   grow weak and thin or waste away physically

   The patient emaciated during the chemotherapy.

2. 2
   verb

   cause to grow thin or weak

   The treatment emaciated him.

Borrowed from Latin ēmaciātus, perfect passive participle of ēmaciō (“to make lean, to cause to waste away”), from ex- (“out”) + maciēs (“leanness”), from macer (“thin”).

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