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emaciate
verb as in rarefy
verb as in thin
verb as in waste
Strong matches
Example Sentences
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.
Famine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.
He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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