English-Thai Dictionary

emaciate

VT ทำให้ ซูบผอม  ทำให้ ผอมแห้ง  tam-hai-sub-pom

 

emaciated

ADJ ผอมแห้ง (เนื่องจาก ขาดอาหาร หรือ ป่วย เป็นโรค  ซูบผอม  thin pom-hang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMACIATE

v.i.[L. emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. small; Eng. meager, meek. ] To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.

 

EMACIATE

v.t.To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness. Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.

 

EMACIATE

a.Thin; wasted.

 

EMACIATED

pp. Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMACIATE

E *ma "ci *ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated; p. pr. & vb. n.Emaciating. ] Etym: [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See Meager. ]

 

Defn: To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away. " Sir T. Browne.

 

EMACIATE

EMACIATE E *ma "ci *ate, v. t.

 

Defn: To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

 

EMACIATE

E *ma "ci *ate, a. Etym: [L. emaciatus, p. p.]

 

Defn: Emaciated. "Emaciate steeds." T. Warton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

emaciated

e ma ci at ed |iˈmāSHēˌātid ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd | ▶adjective abnormally thin or weak, esp. because of illness or a lack of food: she was so emaciated she could hardly stand.

 

Oxford Dictionary

emaciated

emaciated |ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd, ɪˈmeɪʃ -| ▶adjective abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food: she was so emaciated she could hardly stand. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin emaciat- ‘made thin ’, from the verb emaciare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state ) + macies ‘leanness ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

emaciated

emaciated adjective emaciated bodies: thin, skeletal, bony, gaunt, wasted; scrawny, skinny, scraggy, skin and bones, rawboned, sticklike, waiflike; starved, underfed, undernourished, underweight, half-starved; cadaverous, shriveled, shrunken, withered; informal anorexic, like a bag of bones. ANTONYMS fat.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

emaciated

emaciated adjective the captives were sick and emaciated men: thin, skeletal, bony, wasted, thin as a rake; scrawny, skinny, scraggy, skin and bones, raw-boned, angular, stick-like, size-zero; starved, underfed, undernourished, underweight, half-starved; cadaverous, shrivelled, shrunken, withered; gaunt, haggard, drawn, pinched, wizened, attenuated, atrophied; informal anorexic, looking like a bag of bones; archaic phthisical. ANTONYMS fat.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

emaciated

e ma ci at ed /ɪméɪʃièɪtɪd /形容詞 〖be ～〗〈人 動物が 〉 (食料不足 病気で )やせこけて, やせ衰えて (→thin 類義 ).e m à ci á tion 名詞