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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

émaciation

The act of making very lean.

The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

Noun.

The act of making lean or thin in flesh; or a becoming lean by a gradual waste of flesh.

The state of being reduced to leanness.

emaciation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)

The act of making very lean.
The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

the act of making very lean

the state of being emaciated