as in gaunt
suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease
the emaciated bodies of the survivors of the concentration camps
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as in faded
to lose bodily strength or vigor
without adequate medical supplies, doctors could only look on helplessly as cholera victims continued to emaciate
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Recent Examples of emaciated
TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
Television news earlier showed an emaciated, long-haired Mehrtens, wearing a dark-green shirt and black shorts, sitting in a room surrounded by police officers and local officials, according to The Associated Press.
—Greg Norman, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2024
The suit included autopsy pictures of Price's emaciated body.
—CBS News, 13 Sep. 2024
At least one of the emaciated dogs had been reported stolen, police said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
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Israeli forces found their emaciated corpses two days later in a tunnel 65 feet under a Gazan child’s bedroom.
—TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
Television news earlier showed an emaciated, long-haired Mehrtens, wearing a dark-green shirt and black shorts, sitting in a room surrounded by police officers and local officials, according to The Associated Press.
—Greg Norman, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2024
The suit included autopsy pictures of Price's emaciated body.
—CBS News, 13 Sep. 2024
At least one of the emaciated dogs had been reported stolen, police said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
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The piece, The Frugal Meal, depicts a gaunt couple at a dinner table before an empty bowl, a small loaf of bread and a bottle of wine.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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For many of us, our first exposure to death involved an animal: the firefly in the Mason jar, the bird beneath the window, the deer beside the highway, the beloved cat gone gaunt with age, curled up stiff below the basement stairs.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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The face that confronted him was haggard and gaunt, its hair and beard unkempt.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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These are films about a haggard failson trying to hold his life together with the help of a wise-cracking goo monster who longs for the taste of human brains.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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Utah’s roster is inarguably weakened by replacing Callie Smith with Genie Erohkina (one of the worst performers last weekend in Virginia Beach), but the roster rules incentivize teams to dump a mid-season acquisition like Smith, so why not cash in at the trade deadline?Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The yen weakened in its largest single-day decline since June 2022.Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
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Archaeologists identified at least five grave shafts, including skeletal remains, buttons, a coffin, and coffin hardware.Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
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Most of the skeletal remains come from digs carried out from the 1920s to the late 1950s at Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and other ancient settlements of the Indus Valley, according to ASI Director BV Sharma.ByVaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
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Silicon Valley walked in like in the way Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, ‘How many people work here?Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
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Seeing how fast Ukraine went from thousands of drones to millions, things could move quickly.David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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