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Emaciate is usually used as 'emaciated, an adjective used to describe someone or thing that has lost a large amount of weight or fleshy tissue through disease or dietary causes, so as to appear extremely thin and sickly.

The word 'emaciate' might be used in a sentence this way: 'An unknown parasite has interfered with the animals ability to digest food and take up nutrients causing the animal to emaciate.

Distemper can emaciate cats by robbing them of their appetite.

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