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emaciate

verb

1 emaciate

Cause to grow thin or weak:
— The treatment emaciated him.

synonyms: macerate, waste.

Dutch: vermageren

2 emaciate

Grow weak and thin or waste away physically.

Dutch: uitmergelen, uithongeren


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