emaciated

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Foot-and-mouth causes fever and blisters near the hoof and in the mouth that prevent animals from feeding, as seen in the emaciated survivors.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 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

An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: the image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

He was emaciated, his ribs piercing, nearing death.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025

“We were filthy, our camp uniforms almost rotted off our bodies, and both of us so weak and emaciated, we could hardly stand,” Jack said.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren