emaciation
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See also: émaciation
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emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)
- The act of making very lean.
- The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:
- In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.
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Translations[edit]
the act of making very lean
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the state of being emaciated
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