emaciate

His frame was emaciate in the extreme from the prodigious toils which he had endured.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

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 Alexander Miles

After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy

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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

She also had been been separated from her mother and was severely emaciated and in critical condition when she was found on the side of a road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

And while Rahman, 60, has on occasion been the de-facto chair of an emaciated BNP when his mother was jailed and more recently when she was ill, he's largely seen as an untested leader.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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

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

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 Kisari Mohan Ganguli

After an emaciating period he began once more to stouten.

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

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

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