EMACIATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does emaciate mean?
• EMACIATE (verb)
The verb EMACIATE has 2 senses:
1. cause to grow thin or weak
2. grow weak and thin or waste away physically
Familiarity information: EMACIATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EMACIATE (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to grow thin or weak
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
emaciate; macerate; waste
Context example:
The treatment emaciated him
Hypernyms (to "emaciate" is one way to...):
debilitate; drain; enfeeble (make weak)
Cause:
emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Grow weak and thin or waste away physically
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
She emaciated during the chemotherapy
Hypernyms (to "emaciate" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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