Dictionary Entry
emaciate
emaciate is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
- 2transitive verb
To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
- 3adjective
Emaciated.
- 4verb
grow weak and thin or waste away physically
"She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
- 5verb
cause to grow thin or weak
"The treatment emaciated him"
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