All 4 Uses
emaciated
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
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- In stature she was tall, somewhat slender, and, in her latter days, even emaciated.†
Scene 1 *emaciated = unhealthfully thin
- She had just awakened from an unquiet slumber, and I had been watching, with feelings half of anxiety, half of vague terror, the workings of her emaciated countenance.†
Scene 1
- When a door, at length, closed upon her, my glance sought instinctively and eagerly the countenance of the brother—but he had buried his face in his hands, and I could only perceive that a far more than ordinary wanness had overspread the emaciated fingers through which trickled many passionate tears.†
Scene 3
- There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.†
Scene 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(emaciated) very thin -- especially from disease or hunger or cold
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)