emaciation

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emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)

1. The act of making very lean.
2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:

     In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.

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