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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Emaciate

/ĭ-mā′shē-āt′/ · E·ma·ci·ate · IPA /ɪˈmeɪ̯.ʃiˌeɪ̯t/
01 v. i. To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
imp. & p. p. Emaciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating
  1. 1.
    To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
02 v. t. To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
  1. 1.
    To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
03 a. Emaciated.
  1. 1.
    Emaciated.