emaciation

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of making very lean.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

Synonyms

leanness
gauntness
thinness
skinniness
haggardness
boniness
maceration
meagreness
slenderness
exhaustion
C2
scrawniness
scragginess

bonyness

weight loss
wasting away
depletion
45k
weakening
24k
extenuation
weariness
40k

grow weak

fatigue
C2
waste
B1
tabescence
wasting disease

nutritional disorders

attenuation

spoilt condition

attrition
45k
constriction
consumption
C2
decline
C1
drooping
46k
fading
C1
falling ill
goneness
illness
B2
inanition
lassitude
lessening
phthisis
reduction
C2
thinning
34k
wasting
B2
weakness
B2
Translations

émaciation
amaigrissement

Abzehrung

Abmagerung
dimagrimento
emaciación
adelgazamiento

Auszehrung

estrema magrezza

maigreur

Ernährungsstörung

نحول
Verfall
نحاف
Etymology

From emaciate + -ion.

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