emaciate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of EMACIATE

to lose bodily strength or vigor <without adequate medical supplies, doctors could only look on helplessly as cholera victims continued to emaciate>

Synonyms decay, droop, emaciate, fade, fail, flag, go, lag, languish, sag, sink, waste (away), wilt, wither

Related Words break down, wear out; yield; degenerate, deteriorate, rot, run down

Near Antonyms convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperate; gain

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