emaciate
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After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
But such a march as this, of woe-begone, emaciate, skeleton bands, is not to be counted as among war's pomps and glories.
From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
On the following morning the Austrian army, emaciate, humiliated, and dejected, defiled from the gates of Mantua to throw down their arms at the feet of the triumphant Republicans.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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