Synonyms:
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
Meaning: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
Usage examples
The exile, my darling pet, is like the railing, emaciated!
The emaciated fingers began to pick at the coverlet, a fatal sign.
In all the crowd of wan, emaciated faces, he saw not one which was not happier for his sympathy and charity.
Greatly emaciated by the laying of her eggs and by her expenditure of silk, she lives only for the protection of her nest.
At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.
So, when the horses were a little rested, we started, and, after riding a mile or more, we came to a small ravine, where we found one poor buffalo, too old and emaciated to keep up with his companions, and who, therefore, had been abandoned by them, to die alone.
With a few threads and some small leaves joined together, the Crab Spider builds, above her lofty nest, a rudimentary watch-tower where she stays permanently, greatly emaciated, flattened into a sort of wrinkled shell through the emptying of her ovaries and the total absence of food.