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Definitions: Emaciate |
EmaciateVerb1. 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: EmaciateSynonyms: macerate (v), waste (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Emaciate |
| English words defined with "emaciate": Emacerate, Emaciating ♦ Tabefy. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
emaciate | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) 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) истощать (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, outwear, sap, sapped, sapping, wear out). (various references) omršaviti (macerate). (various references) extenuar (exhaust, extenuate, weaken), demacrar, demacrado (emaciated, gaunt, haggard, wasted). (various references) utmärgla (macerate). (various references) ทำให้ซูบผอม. (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emaciate": emaciated, emaciates. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emaciate" (pronounced umā"shēā't) |
| 5 | -ā" sh ē ā' t | glaciate, ingratiate. |
| 4 | -sh ē ā' t | appreciate, depreciate, differentiate, initiate, negotiate, officiate, renegotiate. |
| 3 | -ē ā' t | abbreviate, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 61 63 69 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .- -.-. .. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m a c i a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0061 0063 0069 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979676975678671 |
| 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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