EMACIATED


Meaning of EMACIATED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

body

He obviously looked ill, but what I found terrible was the look of starvation on his emaciated body and face.

I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies , the stick-like limbs.

Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place.

The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.

Its emaciated body is then promptly eaten by its elders so no meat is wasted.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His emaciated body shivered uncontrollably.

News came of the famine, and there were pictures of emaciated children on the TV.

Towards the end of his life he looked emaciated , his cheeks hollow and his eyes sunken.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Everyone in London looks pale, delicate and emaciated or suntanned and emaciated.

He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury, whom I have not seen before.

He was emaciated and half his weight.

I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.

Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.

She was a small, emaciated mouse who wore a perpetually martyred expression.

The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.

Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter, spluttering wildly, her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers.

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