Definitions for emaciate

emaciate e·ma·ci·ate

Spelling: [ih-mey-shee-eyt]
IPA: /ɪˈmeɪ ʃiˌeɪt/

Emaciate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in emaciate (aaceeimt).

Definitions for emaciate

verb (used with object)

  1. to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.

Origin of emaciate

1640-50; Latin ēmaciātus, wasted away, equivalent to ē- e-1 + maciātus, past participle of maciāre to produce leanness (maci(ēs) leanness + -ātus Examples for emaciate

Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.

The daily use of these liquors tends greatly to emaciate and waste the strength of the body, etc.

Honor now bathed his face, and wet his lips with water, and as she sprinkled and rubbed back the gray hair from his emaciate!

Her son, burning with fever and emaciate from grief and fatigue, mounted the box behind in the disguise of a footman.

The emaciate mother was unable to afford sustenance to her infant.

His fragile form was almost feminine in its proportions, but an eagle eye calmly reposed in his pallid and emaciate countenance.

Even the Indian could perceive, from his feeble voice and emaciate steps, that he was not far from the grave.

After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement.

Very hospitably they received the worn, emaciate, and ragged wanderers.

Her cheeks were pale and emaciate, and her forced smile only proclaimed more loudly the grief which was consuming her heart.

Word Value for emaciate
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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