Dictionary

emaciation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English emaciate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emaciation From emaciate + -ion.

Meanings

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.
   • In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:

Forms

Relateds

emaciate

Translations (20)

es emaciación (the act of making very lean) · fr émaciement (the state of being emaciated) · fr émaciation (the act of making very lean) · ja 削痩 (the act of making very lean) · ml ശോഷണം (the state of being emaciated) · ca emaciació (the act of making very lean) · tl pangangayayat (the act of making very lean) · cmn 憔悴 (the state of being emaciated) · de Abmagerung (the act of making very lean) · ca emaciació (the state of being emaciated) · bg мършавост (the state of being emaciated) · mi kaikohinga (the act of making very lean) · ja 削痩 (the state of being emaciated) · de Abgemagertheit (the state of being emaciated) · ml മെലിച്ചിൽ (the state of being emaciated) · ga snoí (the act of making very lean) · de Abmagern (the act of making very lean) · fr émaciation (the state of being emaciated) · ru истоще́ние (the state of being emaciated) · pl wychudzenie (the state of being emaciated)