cadaverous
ca·da·ve·rous
adjective
1.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- “emaciated bony hands”
- “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
- “eyes were haggard and cavernous”
- “small pinched faces”
- “kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration”
Origin
From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).
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