Definitions for emaciations

emaciations e·ma·ci·a·tion

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

Emaciations is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1121 anagrams from letters in emaciations (aaceiimnost).

Definitions for emaciations

noun

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

Origin of emaciations

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

Examples for emaciations

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

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

Dyspepsia and general debility and emaciation accompanied the disease.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for emaciations
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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