Emaciate

(verb.) grow weak and thin or waste away physically; 'She emaciated during the chemotherapy'.

校对:路易斯

• He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is the figure of a youth whose face is hollow and whose eyes have an emaciated glare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

编辑:奥斯本