All 7 Uses of
emaciated
in
War and Peace
- A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.†
Chpt 5 *
- Natasha was standing in the middle of the drawing room, emaciated, with a pale set face, but not at all shamefaced as Pierre expected to find her.†
Chpt 8
- The old valet Tikhon, with sunken, emaciated face that bore the stamp of inconsolable grief, replied: "Yes, Princess" to all Princess Mary's questions and hardly refrained from sobbing as he looked at her.†
Chpt 10
- His emaciated young face, disfigured by the half-shaven head, hung down hopelessly.†
Chpt 11
- His eyes, prominent from the emaciation of his face, gazed inquiringly at his comrades who were paying no attention to him, and he moaned regularly and quietly.†
Chpt 13
- "And so, brother," he continued, with a smile on his pale emaciated face and a particularly happy light in his eyes, "you see, brother…."†
Chpt 14
- She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(emaciated) very thin -- especially from disease or hunger or cold