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Definition of Emaciating
1. emaciate [v] - See also: emaciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emaciating
Literary usage of Emaciating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures, chiefly clinical by Thomas King Chambers (1865)
"He is now emaciating, and emaciating extensively, and convalescent. In the last
sentence I laid some stress on the word " emaciating. ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Now we see that draught oxen, put into good pasture, recover the flesh of young
beef; and men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump and fat, ..."
3. Senescence, the last half of life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
""emaciating diseases, afterwards well cured, have advanced many in the way of
long life for they yield new juice, the old being consumed, and to recover ..."
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