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emaciated

ema·cia·ted

UK/əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/ US/-ˈmeɪ.si-/ rare

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”

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