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emaciated
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 9
- Starts with
- E
- Ends with
- D
- Contains
- MACIATE
- Scrabble score
- 14
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
əˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd
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Meaning
Definitions
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
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Example Sentences
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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