emaciate

The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.

From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles

But such a march as this, of woe-begone, emaciate, skeleton bands, is not to be counted as among war's pomps and glories.

From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The body continues to emaciate, even with plenty of food and a good appetite, so that the quantity of milk is small.

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

The mental strain Threw him upon his bed, and there he lay Till Charles, from Italy in haste returning, Found his old sire emaciate and half dead From wounded honor.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes

Napoleon was pale and emaciate from the toils of his batteries at Toulon, and from his sleepless exertions in fortifying the coast.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

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

On Wednesday, the government had released photos of him hooked up to a ventilator and visibly emaciated, after acknowledging that his situation was "critical."

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

The image was of two emaciated, impoverished South Asian children.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

“Many of the surviving horses were visibly emaciated and in poor health and would not have survived without intervention,” according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

To our right, an emaciated mummy of a man guzzled ruby-red punch out of what eerily resembled a human brainpan.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011

After an emaciating period he began once more to stouten.

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

That their plunge might stimulate Methuen to burn his boots and brave the turgid waters of the Modder, was the fervent wish of Kimberley at the end of fourteen weeks of irksome, emaciating duress.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

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

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