EMACIATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emaciated mean? 

• EMACIATED (adjective)
  The adjective EMACIATED has 1 sense:

1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

  Familiarity information: EMACIATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMACIATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Synonyms:

cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted

Context example:

kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

Strange hardships, I imagine—poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was terribly weak, and looked quite emaciated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was clad in rags, was very emaciated, and bore every trace of prolonged hardship.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She bore upon her aquiline and emaciated face the traces of some recent tragedy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was deadly pale and terribly emaciated, with the protruding, brilliant eyes of a man whose spirit was greater than his strength.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She soon became interested in her work, for her emaciated purse grew stout, and the little hoard she was making to take Beth to the mountains next summer grew slowly but surely as the weeks passed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The sweet girl welcomed me with warm affection, yet tears were in her eyes as she beheld my emaciated frame and feverish cheeks.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Deep down in the recesses of the coffin lay an emaciated figure.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their embrace was but for an instant, however, for the younger man seized the woman and pushed her out of the room, while the elder easily overpowered his emaciated victim, and dragged him away through the other door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)