Definition of "emaciates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emaciate. (verb)

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• "In more than 80 cases now, she has seen thalidomide stop the wasting process that emaciates TB and AIDS sufferers alike."
• "The truth is, there is a certain diet which emaciates men more than any possible degree of abstinence; though I do not remember to have seen any caution against it, either in Cheney, Arbuthnot, or in any other modern writer or regimen."
• "Baby Gliss never had a chance _ born infected with the AIDS virus, abandoned by his mother, now wracked by disease that emaciates his face and makes him wheeze for breath."