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 dogs lick desperately at cracked-open coconuts lying on the dusty ground.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2018
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 bodies, colourless faces, and lack-lustre eyes, revealed the effects of the privations undergone, the continuous exposure to shell fire, and—most of all—the inroads of disease.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley
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