| Emaciate 1. (v. i.) To make or become very thin; to waste away by starvation or illness. 2. (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him. 3. (a.) Emaciated. Thesaurus Entries Sanforize, atrophy, attenuate, consume, consume away, dilute, dribble away, dry up, emacerate, macerate, parch, pine away, preshrink, rarefy, run to seed, run to waste, sear, shrink, shrivel, subtilize, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, waste, waste away, water, water down, weaken, weazen, wither, wither away, wizen |