1. (

• waste ,
• emaciate ,
• macerate ,

) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" ;

2. (

• emaciate

) grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy" ;

1. (

• cadaverous ,
• emaciated ,
• gaunt ,
• haggard ,
• pinched ,
• skeletal ,
• wasted

) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" ;