emaciation

See also: émaciation

English

Etymology

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

Related terms

• emaciate

Translations

the act of making very lean

• French: émaciation (fr) f
• German: Abmagern n, Abmagerung f
• Irish: snoí m
• Maori: kaikohinga
• Spanish: emaciación (es)
• Tagalog: pangangayayat

the state of being emaciated

• Bulgarian: мършавост f (mǎršavost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憔悴 (zh) (qiáocuì)

• French: émaciation (fr) f, émaciement (fr) m (rare)
• German: Abgemagertheit f
• Malayalam: ശോഷണം (ml) (śōṣaṇaṁ), മെലിച്ചിൽ (ml) (meliccil)
• Polish: wychudzenie n
• Russian: истоще́ние (ru) (istoščénije)

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} hor n