emaciated
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Emaciated, and weakened by another pregnancy, she walked five days to Mogadishu.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022
Dennis the Menace > Emaciated Man Seethes: After Dennis blurts out, “Jeepers, you sure are fat, Mister Wilson,” Martha puts her husband on a no-carb diet.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021
Emaciated and traumatised, he is being treated at the single hospital serving the half million inhabitants of Masisi territory, about a thousand miles east of Kinshasa, the capital.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2018
Emaciated common murre carcasses began washing ashore on Alaska beaches in March.
From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2016
Emaciated and famished, they feared a cruel death, but to their astonishment the natives helped them ashore, took them into their little hut of sods, wrapped them in skins, and supplied them with food.
From With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador by La Trobe, Benjamin
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