emaciate

Example Sentences

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They thought they must emaciate their bodies with watching, fasting, toil, and hunger.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

His step became feeble, his form emaciate, his countenance haggard.

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

With an eager gaze, she fixed her eye upon her pale and wasted cheek and her emaciate frame, and the dreadful truth, with the suddenness of a revelation, burst upon her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Many of these infants are of such low vitality, however, that in spite of the most careful feeding they emaciate and die.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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