All 3 Uses of
emaciated
in
Catch-22
- Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.†
Chpt 6
- He swaggered away happily with the proud smile of a champion, his shriveled head high and his emaciated chest out.†
Chpt 12 *
- The boy was emaciated and needed a haircut.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(emaciated) very thin -- especially from disease or hunger or cold