Crossword-Solution: EMACIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Emaciate | v. i. | To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. |
| Emaciate | v. t. | To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him. |
| Emaciate | a. | Emaciated. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “EMACIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Cause to lose weight. | 1 answer |
| grow weak and thin or waste away physically | 1 answer |
| Underfeed, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Put on a starvation diet | 1 answer |
| Make way thin | 1 answer |
| Make unhealthily thin | 1 answer |
| Make too thin | 1 answer |
| Make gaunt | 1 answer |
| Make abnormally thin | 1 answer |
| Make abnormally lean | 1 answer |
| Lose lots of weight | 1 answer |
| IMPOVERISH soil | 1 answer |
| Grossly underfeed | 1 answer |
| Decline to skin and bones. | 1 answer |
| Cause to lose much weight. | 1 answer |
| Become very thin | 1 answer |
| Become too thin | 1 answer |
| Get wasted | 2 answers |
| Makes lean | 2 answers |
| Make thinner | 3 answers |
| Thin down. | 3 answers |
| MAKE feeble | 4 answers |
| Wither away | 5 answers |
| MAKE thin | 8 answers |
| Thin out | 10 answers |
| BEING VERY THIN | 11 answers |
| Waste (away) | 20 answers |
| Starve | 31 answers |
| Impoverish | 33 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with EMACIATE (5)
His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
Emaciate-lipped, with cavernous black eyes Whose inward visions do eclipse the day, Seems he not one re-risen from the grave To yield the secret? Enter RABBI JACOB, and RABBI CRESSELIN led by CLAIRE.
The songs of pale emaciate hours, The fungus-growth of years of peace, Withered before us like mown flowers; We found no pleasure more in these When bullets fell in showers.
But such a march as this, of woe-begone, emaciate, skeleton bands, is not to be counted as among war's pomps and glories.
The "Noli me tangere," on the right, is spoiled from Giotto, and others before him; a peacock, woefully plumeless and colourless, a fountain, an ill drawn toy-horse, and two toy-children gathering flowers, are emaciate remains of Greek symbols.
Quotes with EMACIATE (1)
Fear grid-irons your broken, suffering heart with strength, encasing it with a protective, tough shell. One that soon becomes a prison that will emaciate the unused, enclosed heart inside if left to its own accord. But renewed hope gently unwraps the hard cast, and replaces it with a more resilient, pliable layer, protective, strong, but permeable so as to let love soak in and nurture the malnourished, dying heart inside.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).