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emaciate

verb as in macerate

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His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.

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

The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.

Famine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.

He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.

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On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to emaciate, such as: mash, permeate, ret, saturate, soak, and soften.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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