emaciate
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John placed his hand,90 Pale and emaciate, on his breast, and said: Thy words might raise from earth the heaviest heart.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George
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
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)
Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas
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)
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