Definitions for emaciation

emaciation e·ma·ci·a·tion

Spelling: [ih-mey-shee-ey-shuh n, -see-]
IPA: /ɪˌmeɪ ʃiˈeɪ ʃən, -si-/

Emaciation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 535 anagrams from letters in emaciation (aaceiimnot).

Definitions for emaciation

noun

  1. abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease.
  2. the process of emaciating.

Origin of emaciation

1655-65; Latin ēmaciāt(us) (see emaciate) + -ion

Examples for emaciation

Refugees who had hidden in the woods came to the camps in rags and emaciation.

Propped up with pillows, he looked at me with the big eyes of his emaciation.

Not the thinness of emaciation, but that of bodily structure.

Always slender, he was shadowy now, worn and thin to emaciation.

On such occasions, he issues forth in a state of extreme weakness and emaciation.

All this, however, was as nothing compared with the gauntness and emaciation of the man.

His face was growing thin, almost to emaciation, and his hands were transparent.

They were in a more wretched state of filth and emaciation than their predecessors.

Dyspepsia and general debility and emaciation accompanied the disease.

Poverty, emaciation, and a semi-barbarism deformed the whole kingdom.

Word Value for emaciation
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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