emaciate

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With an eager gaze, she fixed her eye upon her pale and wasted cheek and her emaciate frame, and the dreadful truth, with the suddenness of a revelation, burst upon her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

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 Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

His step became feeble, his form emaciate, his countenance haggard.

From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

And men and dog alike seemed direly thin and emaciate.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery