emaciate

He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

If this best of men, Jaya, my sire, does not rise up, I shall emaciate my own body, sitting on the field of battle.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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 Epes Sargent

The king, pale, emaciate, and with death staring him in the face, was bolstered in his bed.

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

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 Charles Knowlton

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

Leke described the moment where he showed his dad the black-and-white footage of emaciated children and said until then in his "43 years of existence" he had never heard his father's voice shake.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

In October, a Tijuana man was indicted after officers found two emaciated and potentially sedated orange-fronted parakeets stuffed in his underwear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

Although she’s emaciated, I can see that she’s beautiful.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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 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 T. Phelan

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

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