(v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
(v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
(a.) Emaciated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(4) A 3 year old girl was admitted to hospital in an emaciated condition and with polydipsia in October 1974.
(5) A statistically significant difference was noticed in emaciated persons.
(6) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(7) Lesions at the junctions of the gizzard and proventriculus were associated with the nematodes, and resulted in debilitation, emaciation and death.
(8) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(9) All the infected heifers developed clinical trypanosomiasis manifested by massive parasitaemia, fluctuating pyrexia, anaemia, dull hair coat, emaciation, jugular pulse and enlarged superficial lymph nodes.
(10) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
(11) However such symptoms as loss of appetite, nausea and extreme emaciation were observed and caused death.
(12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(13) When deaths and symptoms of chronic emaciation not due to any apparent cause occurred in weaned lambs, the morphological changes observed suggested that the liver probably was the main organ, the function of which was impaired.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The patient's chief complaint had been lumbago and emaciation, and a tumor in her left upper abdomen was found.
(16) The disorder is found to have the same basic characteristics in the male as in the female: namely, a phobic avoidance of normal weight associated with elective carbohydrate starvation and emaciation.
(17) Using univariate analysis, it was found that managerial position and long PPH (more than 11 h) were significantly related to CCE (relative risk of 3.0 and 2.2, respectively) as well as risk factors such as emaciation, left ventricular hypertrophy, excessive sleeping hours, obesity, cigarette smoking, and inadequate control of systolic blood pressure.
(18) These data suggest that cortisol production is excessive in emaciated patients with anorexia nervosa due to a disturbance of the hypothalamic-pituitary mechanisms regulating adrenocortical function.
(19) The pre-patent period was approximately 7 weeks and from that time onwards, the animals became progressively ill and emaciated.
(20) At terminal necropsy, diminution of body fat and atrophy of the spleen and thymus that correlated with emaciation were noted in the MPM-50,000 group.
Emasculate
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
(v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
(a.) Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
Example Sentences:
(1) His biggest part had been as a regular on a police show called The Division , in which he played "a slightly emasculated cop".
(2) Self-emasculation is the end result of an unusual psychiatric disorder, which initially requires surgical treatment.
(3) If the national leaders win – and to do so they have to resolve the Juncker problem – they will face charges of emasculating the election two weeks ago, of campaigning on a tissue of lies.
(4) The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland , but of Newcastle, Oldham, the Midlands, and countless other places not featured on the Circle line.
(5) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(6) Smartphones are "emasculating" – at least according to Sergey Brin , the co-founder of Google, who explained his view while addressing an audience wearing a computer headset that made him look slightly like a technological pirate.
(7) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(8) In fact, I struggle to think of something more emasculating for Batman than that – and that's before you consider that Catwoman apparently does it for him with a big, phallic rocket.
(9) In terms of the politics: well, Abbott will get the thumbs up from blokes who feel emasculated by the thought police.
(10) The key to regaining stable prices was to abandon the full-employment commitment, emasculate the trade unions, and deregulate the financial system.
(11) John Dowd, who served as the first law officer of New South Wales from 1988 to 1991, raised concerns that the government had budgeted insufficient funds for the Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) and was “emasculating a statutory body, which can only be abolished by statute”.
(12) Some residents depend on the US military for employment, but campaigners say the bases emasculate the local economy, the poorest of Japan's 47 prefectures.
(13) We report a case of successful microvascular replantation following self-emasculation by a psychotic patient.
(14) In The Proposal , Sandra Bullock’s inhuman editor leaves female employees shaking, and so emasculates her male secretary she actually asks him to marry her.
(15) After furious lobbying from the public schools (the Headmasters' Conference was established to counter this threat), the endowed schools bill was completely emasculated, the only provision that remained was competitive exams, which only helped to entrench their social and financial exclusivity.
(16) The authorities are said to fear his links with the country's emasculated trade unions, a potentially large pool of support.
(17) Months of brutal repression that included mass round-ups, a succession of show trials, lengthy prison sentences and grisly executions has emasculated the Green movement.
(18) (Since then, parliamentary filibuster managed to emasculate the bill.)
(19) And that's no good for men, because they are becoming emasculated.
(20) The "feminisation of European culture" has been underway since the 1830s, and by now, men have been reduced to an "emasculate[d] … touchy-feely subspecies".