emaciate

Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy

With an eager gaze, she fixed her eye upon her pale and wasted cheek and her emaciate frame, and the dreadful truth, with the suddenness of a revelation, burst upon her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

If this best of men, Jaya, my sire, does not rise up, I shall emaciate my own body, sitting on the field of battle.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Mrs. Rowlandson had two children, a son and a daughter, by her side, and another daughter about six years of age, sick and emaciate, in her arms.

From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Leke described the moment where he showed his dad the black-and-white footage of emaciated children and said until then in his "43 years of existence" he had never heard his father's voice shake.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

On Wednesday, the government had released photos of him hooked up to a ventilator and visibly emaciated, after acknowledging that his situation was "critical."

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

"It helped the story to see an emaciated body. With Reuben, I just wanted to feel the character in the body and feel physically imposing opposite Jamie."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

She also had been been separated from her mother and was severely emaciated and in critical condition when she was found on the side of a road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

To our right, an emaciated mummy of a man guzzled ruby-red punch out of what eerily resembled a human brainpan.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

All those terrible yellow toxins, wizening his knees, slackening his tendons, emaciating his calves.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011

A lipoma, or fatty tumor, in the subcutaneous tissue, may go on increasing to huge bulk while the body is steadily emaciating.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

After an emaciating period he began once more to stouten.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

The agitators proclaim that their number in Parliament has diminished, and that they have lost cities and counties, because the constituency has decreased under the "emaciating influence of the registration law."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

That highly-blessed lady is always emaciating herself with the austerest of penances!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli