emaciate
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"Emaciate myself," protested Jeanne eagerly; "do you mean I'm taking on flesh?"
From Somewhere in France by Davis, Richard Harding
The ever wan morass, the dune, the blear Sandweed, and tepid pool, and putrid smell, Emaciate purpose to a fractious fear, Beckon the body to its last low cell— A chink no chart will tell.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Emaciate, e-mā′shi-āt, v.t. to make meagre or lean: to deprive of flesh: to waste.—v.i. to become lean: to waste away.—p.adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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