Emaciated

Definition: Emaciated

Emaciated

Adjective

1. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration".

Date "emaciated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Emaciated

Synonyms: bony (adj), cadaverous (adj), gaunt (adj), haggard (adj), pinched (adj), skeletal (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Narrowness Thinness	Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Emaciated

English words defined with "emaciated": anorexia nervosa ♦ crowbait ♦ emaciate ♦ macerate ♦ To fall away ♦ waste. (references)

Specialty definitions using "emaciated": Mother ♦ substandard meat ♦ YORICK. (references)

Etymologies containing "emaciated": Emacerate. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Emaciated man eating a candy bar on the beach, with U.S. care package full of Baby Ruth candy bars.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Winston Churchill	Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Uzbekistan	Relatives who visited the brothers reported that Mukhammad Bekzhon was walking on crutches and looked emaciated. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Emaciated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.71% of the time. "Emaciated" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	62.71%	37	56,631
Lexical Verb (past tense)	18.64%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past participle)	11.86%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	6.78%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "emaciated": emaciated-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "emaciated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i holluar (dilute, diluted, frayed), i dobësuar (diluted, effete, emasculate, exhausted, flagging, rundown, sapless). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهزول (skinny, wasted), ‏هازل (playful), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy). (various references)

Bulgarian		изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), измършавял (haggard, pinched, pinch-faced). (various references)

Czech		vyzáblý (gaunt, scraggy, spare, wasted), vyhladovìlý (famished), vychrtlý (gaunt, haggard, scrawny). (various references)

Finnish		laihtunut (thin). (various references)

French		décharné, amaigri, émacié. (various references)

German		abgemagert (thin). (various references)

Greek		αδυνατισμένοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		lesoványodott (attenuate, lean). (various references)

Indonesian		kerempeng (thin), kerempang. (various references)

Italian		emaciato (haggard). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		衰残 (worn out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいざ�" (worn out). (various references)

Manx		shang (gaunt, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), drueg. (various references)

Norwegian		utmagret. (various references)

Pig Latin		emaciateday

Portuguese		empobrecer (beggar, depauperate, emasculation, impoverish, pauperize). (various references)

Romanian		supt (gaunt, hollow-cheeked, suck, sucking, thin, wasted), sfrijit (gaunt, lean, scrawny, thin, wizened), scofâlcit (gaunt-faced, hollow-cheeked, sunken), ogârjit (scraggy, skinny), descãrnat (fleshless, scraggy, thin), costeliv (gaunt, meager, meagre, scraggy, skinny). (various references)

Russian		истощенный (cachectic, effete, exhausted, impoverished, sapless, spent), испитой (hollow-cheeked). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mršav (gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin). (various references)

Spanish		extenuado (exhausted, weak), demacrado (emaciate, gaunt, haggard, wasted). (various references)

Swedish		utmärglad (emiciated, haggard, lank, wasted), avtärd (peaked, peaky, worn). (various references)

Thai		ผอมแห้ง (เนื่องจากขา�"อาหารหรือป่วยเป็นโรค). (various references)

Turkish		zayıflamış (decayed, faded), verimsiz (abortive, barren, fruitless, idle, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, infertile, jejune, lean, poor, sterile, thin, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unthrifty), kıraç (barren, gaunt, infertile), bir deri bir kemik (nothing but skin and bones, rawboned, scraggy, skinny, starveling). (various references)

Ukranian		худий (angular, attenuate, emaciate, ill-conditioned, jejune, lanky, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, skimpy, spare, spiny, thin), чахлий (emaciate, stunted), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, 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), зморений (chivied, dog tired, dog-weary, emaciate, outspent, overworn, weary). (various references)

Vietnamese		gầy mòn. (various references)

Welsh		achul (thin). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	osee. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Emaciated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emacate, emaceated, emaciaped, emaciatex, emacipated, emanciated, emasciated, ematiated, emiciated, enuciated, imaciated. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "emaciated" (pronounced umā"shēā'tud)
7	-ā" sh ē ā' t u d	glaciated.
6	-sh ē ā' t u d	appreciated, depreciated, initiated, negotiated, officiated, renegotiated, substantiated, unappreciated, undifferentiated, uninitiated, unsubstantiated.
5	-ē ā' t u d	abbreviated, affiliated, alleviated, appropriated, associated, delineated, deviated, differentiated, enunciated, excoriated, expropriated, humiliated, infuriated, irradiated, mediated, misappropriated, nauseated, permeated, radiated, recreated, repatriated, repudiated, retaliated, unaffiliated.
4	-ā' t u d	abdicated, abrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, accumulated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alienated, allocated, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, anticipated, antiquated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assimilated, attenuated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, chlorinated, circulated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congratulated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, constipated, consummated, contaminated, contemplated, cooperated, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, deactivated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, demonstrated, denigrated, denominated, desegregated, designated, deteriorated, detonated, devaluated, devastated, dictated, dilapidated, discriminated, disintegrated, disseminated, dissipated, domesticated, dominated, donated, duplicated, educated, elevated, eliminated, elucidated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emulated, encapsulated, enumerated, eradicated, escalated, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, exhilarated, exonerated, exterminated, extrapolated, extricated, fabricated, facilitated, fascinated, federated, fixated, flagellated, fluctuated, formulated, frustrated, generated, germinated, graduated, gravitated, gyrated, halogenated, hesitated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impersonated, implicated, impregnated, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, indoctrinated, infatuated, infiltrated, innovated, inoculated, instigated, insulated, integrated, interpolated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, masturbated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, miscalculated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutated, mutilated, narrated, navigated, necessitated, nominated, nonregulated, obligated, obliterated, operated, opinionated, orchestrated, orientated, originated, outdated, overestimated, overregulated, overstated, oxygenated, participated, penetrated, perforated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pollinated, pontificated, populated, precipitated, predicated, predominated, prefabricated, premeditated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, punctuated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, recalculated, reciprocated, redecorated, reevaluated, reformulated, refrigerated, regenerated, regulated, rehabilitated, reincarnated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, rejuvenated, relegated, renominated, renovated, replicated, resonated, resuscitated, reverberated, rotated, ruminated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, simulated, situated, sophisticated, speculated, stagnated, stalemated, stimulated, stipulated, subjugated, subordinated, suffocated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, terminated, titillated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unallocated, unanticipated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, underestimated, understated, uneducated, unincorporated, unmitigated, unregulated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, venerated, ventilated.
3	-t u d	abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, abstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acetamide.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-t"
	-1 letter: acetamid, decimate, emaciate, medicate.
	-2 letters: academe, edemata, mediate.
	-3 letters: acedia, deceit, emetic, ideate, itemed, meated, mediae, teamed.
	-4 letters: aceta, acted, adeem, admit, aecia, aimed, amice, amide, cadet, cited, deice, demit, dicta, edema, edict, maced, mated, media, medic, meted, tamed, timed.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, acme, acta, adit, aide, amia, amid, amie, atma, cade, cadi, caid, came, cate, cede, cedi, cete, cite, dace, dame, data, date, deem, deet, deme, dice, diet, dime, dita, dite, edit, eide, emic, emit, etic, iced, idea, idem, item, mace, made, maid, mate, mead, meat, meed, meet, meta, mete, mica, mice, mite, tace, tame, team, teed, teem, tide, tied, time.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-t"
	+1 letter: acetamides.
	+2 letters: emancipated.
	+4 letters: acetazolamide, decontaminate.
	+5 letters: acetazolamides, decontaminated, decontaminates, reacclimatized, recontaminated.
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