emaciate
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Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Her son, burning with fever and emaciate from grief and fatigue, mounted the box behind in the disguise of a footman.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
He dressed with the utmost care; painted his wrinkled brow and emaciate cheeks, and resorted to all the appliances of art to maintain the aspect of youth and vigor.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series 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
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
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
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
“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
Worple, who was a small, stout, bespectacled man, grabbed Harry’s hand and shook it enthusiastically; the vampire Sanguini, who was tall and emaciated with dark shadows under his eyes, merely nodded.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
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
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