emaciated
/əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/
emaciated means thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease. It carries an Arena rating of 1579, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, emaciated ranks #571 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #947 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #2,268 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,689 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words.
emaciated is pronounced /əˈmeɪ.ʃi.eɪ.tɪd/.
Why “emaciated” is a great word
Abnormally thin or weak, especially from extreme hunger, illness, or suffering. From Latin ēmaciātus, past participle of ēmaciāre ("to make lean"), from ex- ("out, thoroughly") + maciāre ("to make lean"), from macies ("leanness"), first attested in English in the 1660s. Unlike "thin," which sketches a neutral silhouette, or "lean," which implies a honed, athletic tautness, "emaciated" is a portrait of depletion, a subtraction unto suffering. It is the stark clavicle that maps a famine, the parchment skin drawn taut over a temple's architecture, the hollow where life has been scooped out—the body become a monument to its own absence.
adj
- Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.e.g.“The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.”
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