emaciation

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See also: émaciation

English

Etymology

From emaciate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

Noun

emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)

  1. The act of making very lean.
  2. 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.

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