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emaciate

verbCommon GRE wordMore E words

to make abnormally thin and weak through starvation or disease

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Emaciate in a sentence

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The drought began to emaciate the livestock across the region.

Synonyms
wastewitherenfeeble
Antonyms
nourishfatten

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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.

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Emaciate (verb) means to make abnormally thin and weak through starvation or disease
Here is emaciate used in an example sentence: "The drought began to emaciate the livestock across the region."
Common synonyms for emaciate include waste, wither, enfeeble.
Antonyms of emaciate include nourish, fatten.
Emaciate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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