emaciate
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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 Miles, Alexander
They thought they must emaciate their bodies with watching, fasting, toil, and hunger.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
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)
The dying emperor received into his emaciate, feeble arms the new bride who had been selected for him, Marva Matweowna, and after a few weeks of languor and depression died.
From The Empire of Russia 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
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