Usually means: Extremely thin due to starvation.
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  10. Emaciated, emaciated: Dictionary.com
  11. emaciated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Emaciated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Emaciated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  16. emaciated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  20. emaciated: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. emaciated: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

Similar:
haggard, gaunt, thin, cadaverous, pinched, lean, wasted, bony, skeletal, extenuated, more...

Opposite:
obese, corpulent, rotund, portly

Types:
gaunt, skinny, thin, scrawny, bony, underweight, more...

Phrases:
more emaciated, more...

Adjectives:
poor, lowest, little, pale, own, few

Colors:
    sallow,     gray,     ivory,     alabaster,     bone, more...

↻From "Come Home" by Placebo:

Stuck between the do or die, I feel emaciated
Hard to breathe I try and try, Ill get asphyxiated
1 of 3 verses


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Similar:
haggard, gaunt, thin, cadaverous, pinched, lean, wasted, bony, skeletal, extenuated, more...

Opposite:
obese, corpulent, rotund, portly

Types:
gaunt, skinny, thin, scrawny, bony, underweight, more...

Phrases:
more emaciated, more...

Adjectives:
poor, lowest, little, pale, own, few

Colors:
    sallow,     gray,     ivory,     alabaster,     bone, more...



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