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EMACIATE

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• 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.

• EMACIATE (verb)

Sense 1

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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

Sense 2

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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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(English proverb)
"One finger cannot lift a pebble."
(Native American proverb, Hopi)
"Fixing the known is better than waiting for the unknown."
(Arabic proverb)
"Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window."
(Corsican proverb)

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