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单词 emaciation
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Definition of emaciation in English:

emaciation

noun ɪˌmeɪsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)nəˌmeɪʃiˈeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • The 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
 
 
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