emaciate
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He dressed with the utmost care; painted his wrinkled brow and emaciate cheeks, and resorted to all the appliances of art to maintain the aspect of youth and vigor.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
And men and dog alike seemed direly thin and emaciate.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery
The king, pale, emaciate, and with death staring him in the face, was bolstered in his bed.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
His fragile form was almost feminine in its proportions, but an eagle eye calmly reposed in his pallid and emaciate countenance.
From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
At last he began to emaciate and look haggard.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
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