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Emaciate

Definitions: Emaciate

Emaciate

Verb

1. Cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him".

2. Grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Emaciate

Synonyms: macerate (v), waste (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Emaciate

English words defined with "emaciate": Emacerate, EmaciatingTabefy. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emaciate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

emaciate

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Emaciate

Language Translations for "emaciate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

holloj (cut, dilute, doctor, point, slenderize, thin), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هزل (attenuate, badinage, extenuate, fun, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, slim, thin), ‏نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, loosen, melt, pervert, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съсухрям (sear), карам да измършавее (pinch), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyhladovìt (famish, starve). (various references)

   

French

  

s'amaigrir, s'émacier. (various references)

   

German

  

abzehren (to emaciate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισχναίνω (macerate, slim), λιγνεύω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lesoványít (macerate, to emaciate). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kurus kering (beanpole, raw-boned, tabes). (various references)

   

Italian

  

emaciare. (various references)

   

Manx

  

thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, shallow, slenderize, slim, thin), shangaghey (macerate, maceration, reduce, slenderization, slenderize, slim, slimming, thinning, waste, waste as body). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emaciateay

   

Portuguese

  

enfraquecido (abated, atrophied, die away, impaired, reduced), emagrecido, emaciar, emaciado (emaciation), travessão (blank, dash, header, main, transom, traverse), definhar (break, consume, die, languish, pine, rot, waste). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, distress, drain, drive, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, use up, waste), vlãgui (enervate, exhaust, sap), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), se atrofia, scofâlci. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

истощать (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, outwear, sap, sapped, sapping, wear out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

omršaviti (macerate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

extenuar (exhaust, extenuate, weaken), demacrar, demacrado (emaciated, gaunt, haggard, wasted). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utmärgla (macerate). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้ซูบผอม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), verimsizleştirmek (impoverish, sterilize), bir deri bir kemik yapmak (skeletonize). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

худнути (attenuate, grow thin, lose weight, reduce, slenderize, slim, thin, thin away), худий (angular, attenuate, emaciated, ill-conditioned, jejune, lanky, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, skimpy, spare, spiny, thin), чахлий (emaciated, stunted), виснажуватися (atrophy, collapse, peter out, run low), виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, jaded, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, sapless, spent, wan, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn, worn out), марніти, зморювати (atrophy, exhaust, fatigue, over-fatigue), зморений (chivied, dog tired, dog-weary, emaciated, outspent, overworn, weary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Emaciate

Derivations

Words beginning with "emaciate": emaciated, emaciates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Emaciate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emacate, emaciatex, Emancia, emanciate, emicate, enuciate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Emaciate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "emaciate" (pronounced umā"shēā't)
5-ā" sh ē ā' tglaciate, ingratiate.
4-sh ē ā' tappreciate, depreciate, differentiate, initiate, negotiate, officiate, renegotiate.
3-ē ā' tabbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, delineate, deviate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, obviate, permeate, radiate, recreate, renunciate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Emaciate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-m-t"

-2 letters: emetic.

-3 letters: aceta, aecia, amice.

-4 letters: acme, acta, amia, amie, atma, came, cate, cete, cite, emic, emit, etic, item, mace, mate, meat, meet, meta, mete, mica, mice, mite, tace, tame, team, teem, time.

-5 letters: ace, act, aim, ait, ama, ami, ate, cam, cat, cee, eat, eme, eta, ice, mac, mae, mat, met, tae, tam, tea, tee, tic, tie.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-m-t"
 

+1 letter: acetamide, emaciated, emaciates.

 

+2 letters: acetamides, bacteremia, emancipate, hemiacetal.

 

+3 letters: bacteremias, emancipated, emancipates, hemiacetals, maintenance, metaethical.

 

+4 letters: aeromagnetic, cabinetmaker, emblematical, exanthematic, maintenances, metacercaria, metathetical.

 

+5 letters: acetaminophen, acetazolamide, ascertainment, cabinetmakers, catecholamine, decontaminate, metacercariae, metacercarial, metamerically, paleomagnetic, reacclimatize, recontaminate, saccharimeter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Emaciate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6D 61 63 69 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101101 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#109 &#97 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006D 0061 0063 0069 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3979676975678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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