emaciate

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

As the fugitives from France, emaciate, pale, and woe-stricken, with tattered and dusty garb, recited in England, Switzerland, and Germany the horrid story of the massacre, the hearts of their auditors were frozen with horror.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

And men and dog alike seemed direly thin and emaciate.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

Chisca, the chieftain, was far advanced in years, a feeble, emaciate old man of very diminutive stature.

From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

Nicaragua's Ministry of Health released an image of an emaciated Rivera lying in a hospital bed being ventilated via a tube through his neck.

From BBC ● 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

But the look on her face when she saw me, my emaciated frame, the chemical burn under my clavicle, sour smell I couldn’t mask, told me otherwise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

A few weeks later George and Florah came down with a mysterious illness, which left them emaciated and lethargic, their stomachs so distended that I thought they would burst.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

That their plunge might stimulate Methuen to burn his boots and brave the turgid waters of the Modder, was the fervent wish of Kimberley at the end of fourteen weeks of irksome, emaciating duress.

From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan