emaciates
Makes skeletal thin
Emaciates is the third-person singular form of emaciate, meaning to cause someone or something to become abnormally thin and wasted, typically through disease, starvation, or severe deprivation.
The word emphasizes a process of wasting away rather than mere thinness.
Prolonged illness emaciates the body.
The drought emaciates livestock across the region.
While the verb form appears occasionally, the past participle emaciated functions far more commonly as an adjective describing the resulting gaunt condition.
Severe food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
- gauntLean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
malnourished · underfed · deprivation · scarcity · sunken · wasted · bony · thin
Disorder impairing normal function
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- wasting syndromePathological progressive tissue loss
HIV · anemia · leukemia · chronic illness · infection · malignancy · tumor · chemotherapy
Lack of something needed
- pellagraNiacin-lack illness
- scurvyVitamin C deficiency disease
- beriberiVitamin B1 deficiency disease
- ricketsNutritional bone-weakening illness
protein deficiency · vitamin deficiency · stunting · wasting · anemia · undernourishment · micronutrient · caloric restriction
Loss of tissue mass
- witheringDrying and declining
- shrinkageDecrease in size
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- disuseCessation of practice
weakness · degeneration · dystrophy · loss · thinning · shriveling · enfeeblement · debility
famine
Severe food shortage
skeletal · malnourished · underfed · deprivation · scarcity · sunken · wasted · bony · thin · lean
disease
Disorder impairing normal function
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
wasting syndrome · HIV · anemia · leukemia · chronic illness · infection · malignancy · tumor · chemotherapy · terminal
deficiency
Lack of something needed
rickets · protein deficiency · vitamin deficiency · stunting · wasting · anemia · undernourishment · micronutrient · caloric restriction · nutrient depletion
muscle wasting
Loss of tissue mass
- witheringDrying and declining
- shrinkageDecrease in size
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
disuse · weakness · degeneration · dystrophy · loss · thinning · shriveling · enfeeblement · debility · immobility
emaciatesfattens
Causes weight gain
plumps · fills out · bulks up · rounds out · beefs up
emaciatesnourishes
Provides sustenance to
feeds · strengthens · fortifies · nurtures · sustains
emaciatesstrengthens
Increases force or durability
invigorates · fortifies · builds up · revitalizes · restores