emaciate

Many of these infants are of such low vitality, however, that in spite of the most careful feeding they emaciate and die.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

At last he began to emaciate and look haggard.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles

Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.

From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Chisca, the chieftain, was far advanced in years, a feeble, emaciate old man of very diminutive stature.

From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Her cheeks were pale and emaciate, and her forced smile only proclaimed more loudly the grief which was consuming her heart.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The United States had called for Rivera's release after the government published photos of the visibly emaciated detainee hooked up to a ventilator.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Nicaragua's Ministry of Health released an image of an emaciated Rivera lying in a hospital bed being ventilated via a tube through his neck.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The remaining eight "appeared emaciated" and later succumbed to "poor health issues", the report states.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

But the look on her face when she saw me, my emaciated frame, the chemical burn under my clavicle, sour smell I couldn’t mask, told me otherwise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

A second, much older Halliday lies inside the casket, his body emaciated and ravaged by cancer.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

All those terrible yellow toxins, wizening his knees, slackening his tendons, emaciating his calves.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011

The agitators proclaim that their number in Parliament has diminished, and that they have lost cities and counties, because the constituency has decreased under the "emaciating influence of the registration law."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

That highly-blessed lady is always emaciating herself with the austerest of penances!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

A lipoma, or fatty tumor, in the subcutaneous tissue, may go on increasing to huge bulk while the body is steadily emaciating.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

After an emaciating period he began once more to stouten.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold