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emaciated

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of emaciated

suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease

the emaciated bodies of the survivors of the concentration camps

Synonyms of emaciated

cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted

Words Related to emaciated

bony (also boney), lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, skinny, spare, thin

starved, underfed, undernourished

famished, hungry, starving

shriveled (or shrivelled), withered, wizened

Near Antonyms of emaciated

beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby

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