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Webster 1913 Edition

Emaciate

E-ma′ci-ate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Emaciated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Emaciating
.]
[L.
emaciatus
, p. p. of
emaciare
to make lean;
e
+
maciare
to make lean or meager, fr.
macies
leanness, akin to
macer
lean. See
Meager
.]
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
“He emaciated and pined away.”
Sir T. Browne.

E-ma′ci-ate

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean;
as, his sickness
emaciated
him
.

E-ma′ci-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
emaciatus
, p. p.]
Emaciated.
“Emaciate steeds.”
T. Warton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emaciate

EMA'CIATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. small; Eng. meager, meek.] To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.

EMA'CIATE

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness.
Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.

Definition 2024

emaciate

emaciate

English

Verb

emaciate ‎(third-person singular simple present emaciates, present participle emaciating, simple past and past participle emaciated)

  1. (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted
    Anorexics ignore that sustained emaciation ends in starvation.
  2. (intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.

Derived terms

Translations

External links

  • emaciate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • emaciate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Italian

Adjective

emaciate

  1. feminine plural of emaciato

Etymology

From Latin emaciare ‎(“to make lean, cause to waste away”), from ex- ‎(“out”) + macies ‎(“leanness”), from macer ‎(“thin”).

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