emaciate

It was on the 25th of April, 1526, that the pale and emaciate adventurer, accompanied by a few followers, embarked on board a brigantine in the anchorage at Truxillo.

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

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 Peter Charles Remondino

Her son, burning with fever and emaciate from grief and fatigue, mounted the box behind in the disguise of a footman.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Her cheeks were pale and emaciate, and her forced smile only proclaimed more loudly the grief which was consuming her heart.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Napoleon was pale and emaciate from the toils of his batteries at Toulon, and from his sleepless exertions in fortifying the coast.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

The United States had called for Rivera's release after the government published photos of the visibly emaciated detainee hooked up to a ventilator.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 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

“Many of the surviving horses were visibly emaciated and in poor health and would not have survived without intervention,” according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

As he spoke, I saw pain and helplessness in my father's eyes as he realized how weak and emaciated I had become.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011

After an emaciating period he began once more to stouten.

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

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

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

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