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E·ma·ci·ate v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating.] To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. “He emaciated and pined away.”
emaciated
adj : 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" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
wasted]