Emaciate



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 使瘦弱
• ［英］ v. 使瘦弱 ( become very thin)
• ［类］ 反义词: fatten ( 养肥)
• ［记］ e+maci ( 瘦) +ate -> 瘦出去, 使...瘦弱

Webster Collegiate

verb (-ated; -ating)

• Etymology: Latin emaciatus, past participle of emaciare, from e- + macies leanness, from macer lean — more at meager
• Date: 1646
• intransitive verb
  • to waste away physically
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin <cattle emaciated by illness>
  • 2. to make feeble
• ? emaciation noun

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