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    ...leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road.  (source)
    emaciated = unhealthfully thin
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    He came forward, holding his belt by one hand. The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and...  (source)
    emaciation = becoming unhealthfully thin
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    He was emaciated and nervous, although he tried to hide it.  (source)
    emaciated = unhealthfully thin
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    I thought about Tim, but oddly, instead of the emaciated figure I'd seen in the hospital mom, I saw only the young man I'd met at the beach, the clean-cut student with an easy smile for everyone.  (source)
    emaciated = unhealthfully thin
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    He'd lost much of his hair since turning fifty, and his belly, always undernourished in appearance, now suggested a shriveled emaciation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Each in his eyes was dark and cavernous, Pallid in face, and so emaciate That from the bones the skin did shape itself.†  (source)
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    There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity.  (source)
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    But what was startling was the emaciation of his face.†  (source)
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    She was so thin. Emaciated.  (source)
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    He was gaunt almost to emaciation and had lost track of time.†  (source)
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    "Aye, Gabriel Marez," the gray, emaciated face smiled weakly, "it does my heart good to see an old compadre, an old vaquero—"  (source)
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    I had observed how worn to emaciation was his face by illness and care, and how thin the skin lay over the bone.†  (source)
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    A poor, emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice:  (source)
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