All 4 Uses of
emaciated
in
Gone with the Wind
- He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.†
Chpt 3.23 *
- Carreen and Suellen, emaciated and white, slept brokenly and awoke to mumble with wide, staring eyes in the tall four-poster bed where they had whispered together in better, happier days.†
Chpt 3.24
- He was emaciated and he coughed as he lay in an easy chair in the sunshine with a shawl across his knees, but his face lit up when he saw her.†
Chpt 3.29
- Emaciated from a year in a Yankee prison, exhausted by his long tramp on his ill-fitting wooden peg, he had little strength to combat pneumonia and for days he lay in the bed moaning, trying to get up, fighting battles over again.†
Chpt 3.30
Definition:
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(emaciated) very thin -- especially from disease or hunger or cold