Synonyms of emaciated

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adjective

as in gaunt

suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease

the emaciated bodies of the survivors of the concentration camps

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gaunt
• haggard
• skeletal
• starved
• starving
• bony
• cadaverous
• hungry
• scrawny
• skinny
• undernourished
• underfed
• thin
• lanky
• lank
• wasted
• rawboned
• sinewy
• scraggy
• boney
• shrivelled
• famished
• wizened
• withered
• shriveled
• spare

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• healthy
• husky
• burly
• fit
• brawny
• obese
• beefy
• hale
• overweight
• hearty
• fat
• chubby
• pudgy
• plump
• corpulent
• stocky
• rotund
• fleshy
• portly
• heavyset
• tubby
• thickset
• flabby
• soft
• roly-poly

emaciated

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verb

past tense of emaciate

as in faded

to lose bodily strength or vigor

without adequate medical supplies, doctors could only look on helplessly as cholera victims continued to emaciate

Synonyms & Similar Words

• faded
• weakened
• sagged
• decayed
• went
• sunk
• withered
• sank
• failed
• drooped
• lagged
• wilted
• languished
• wasted (away)
• flagged
• deteriorated
• rotted
• degenerated
• yielded
• broke down
• wore out
• ran down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• recovered
• rallied
• recuperated
• rebounded
• convalesced
• gained