Causing extreme thinness or wasting; describing a process or condition that progressively weakens and thins someone.
Present participle of 'emaciate,' from Latin 'emaciare,' describing the ongoing, progressive action of wasting away.
Diseases like tuberculosis were historically called 'consumption' because they had an emaciating effect—patients visibly wasted away, and the disease literally consumed them from inside.
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