'Emaciate' definitions:
Definition of 'emaciate'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Emaciate'
From: GCIDE
- Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, v. t. To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Emaciate'
From: GCIDE
- Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, a. [L. emaciatus, p. p.] Emaciated. "Emaciate steeds." --T. Warton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Emaciate'
From: GCIDE
- Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating.] [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See Meager.] To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'emaciate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- atrophy,
- attenuate,
- consume,
- consume away,
- dilute,
- dribble away,
- dry up,
- emacerate,
- macerate,
- parch,
- pine away,
- preshrink,
- rarefy,
- run to seed,
- run to waste,
- Sanforize,
- sear,
- shrink,
- shrivel,
- subtilize,
- thin,
- thin away,
- thin down,
- thin out,
- waste,
- waste away,
- water,
- water down,
- weaken,
- weazen,
- wither,
- wither away,
- wizen