Definition of emaciation in English:
emaciation
noun ɪˌmeɪsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)nəˌmeɪʃiˈeɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounThe state of being abnormally thin or weak.
thin to the point of emaciation
Example sentencesExamples
- The images of emaciation portrayed in so many magazines by anorexic models and young stars make me so angry.
- As we sat at a Paris café table, the most striking passing figure was an old woman - thin to the point of emaciation.
- If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations.
- After many days of fasting, the hunger strikers present a progressively more serious deterioration, emaciation and profound dehydration.
- He was convicted of four charges of causing unnecessary suffering to sheep and lambs by failing to treat or seek veterinary advice for emaciation and lameness on January 19 and 25, 2001.
Synonyms
thinness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, scragginess
starvation, underfeeding, undernourishment
cadaverousness, gauntness, haggardness, attenuation, atrophy
informal anorexia
archaic phthisis
Definition of emaciation in US English:
emaciation
nounəˌmāSHēˈāSH(ə)nəˌmeɪʃiˈeɪʃ(ə)n
The state of being abnormally thin or weak.
thin to the point of emaciation
Example sentencesExamples
- As we sat at a Paris café table, the most striking passing figure was an old woman - thin to the point of emaciation.
- After many days of fasting, the hunger strikers present a progressively more serious deterioration, emaciation and profound dehydration.
- He was convicted of four charges of causing unnecessary suffering to sheep and lambs by failing to treat or seek veterinary advice for emaciation and lameness on January 19 and 25, 2001.
- The images of emaciation portrayed in so many magazines by anorexic models and young stars make me so angry.
- If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations.
Synonyms
thinness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, scragginess