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emaciated

[ih-mey-shee-ey-tid] / ɪˈmeɪ ʃiˌeɪ tɪd /


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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

And while Rahman, 60, has on occasion been the de-facto chair of an emaciated BNP when his mother was jailed and more recently when she was ill, he's largely seen as an untested leader.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: the image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Benjamin Rush emerged from the epidemic emaciated, feeble, and haunted.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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