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English
Etymology
From emaciate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)
- The act of making very lean.
- The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
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: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.
Translations
the act of making very lean
the state of being emaciated
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