emaciation

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emaciation

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

noun emaciations

  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.

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noun the act of making very lean

Españolemaciación
日本語削痩 sakusō
Françaisémaciation
DeutschAbmagern, Abmagerung

noun the state of being emaciated

日本語削痩 sakusō
中文憔悴 qiáocuì
Françaisémaciation, émaciement
DeutschAbgemagertheit
Русскийистоще́ние istoščénije

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@misc{emaciation_2026,
  title = {emaciation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/emaciation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}