emaciate

Borrowed from Latin ēmaciātus, perfect passive participle of ēmaciō (“to make lean, to cause to waste away”), from ex- (“out”) + maciēs (“leanness”), from macer (“thin”).

• enPR: ĭ-mā′shē-āt′^[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪ̯.ʃiːˌeɪ̯t/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪ̯.ʃiˌeɪ̯t/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmæɪ̯.ʃiːˌæɪ̯t/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈmæɪ̯.ʃiːˌæɪ̯t/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪˈme.ʃiˌet/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeː.ʃiːˌeːʈ/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃieɪt
• Hyphenation: e‧ma‧ci‧ate^[1]

emaciate (third-person singular simple present emaciates, present participle emaciating, simple past and past participle emaciated)

1. (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
2. (intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.

• emaciated
• emaciation

• meager

emaciate (comparative more emaciate, superlative most emaciate)

1. Emaciated.

• gaunt

• “emaciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “emaciate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “emaciate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /e.maˈt͡ʃa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧ma‧cià‧te

emaciàte

1. feminine plural of emaciàto

emaciàte

1. feminine plural of emaciàto

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.ma.kiˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.ma.t͡ʃiˈaː.t̪e]
• Hyphenation: ē‧ma‧ci‧ā‧te

ēmaciāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēmaciātus