Emaciation

Definitions

1. The act of making very lean.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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