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

Mrs. Rowlandson had two children, a son and a daughter, by her side, and another daughter about six years of age, sick and emaciate, in her arms.

From King Philip Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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)

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

His frame was emaciate in the extreme from the prodigious toils which he had endured.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various