EMA'CIATE, v.i. [L. emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. small; Eng. meager, meek.] To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.
EMA'CIATE, v.t. To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness.
Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.
EMA'CIATE, a. Thin; wasted.
