emaciated

emaciated
    adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
           "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
           men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
           cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
           wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony},
           {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched},
           {skeletal}, {wasted}]
    

Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emaciated}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Emaciating}.] [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to
   make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies
   leanness, akin to macer lean. See {Meager}.]
   To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away
   in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." --Sir T. Browne.
   [1913 Webster]
    

emaciated \emaciated\ adj.
   having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under
   the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.

   Syn: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
        wasted.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "emaciated":
      Sanforized, anorectic, anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony,
      brittle, cadaverous, consumed, consumptive, corky, corpselike,
      desiccated, drawn, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, gaunt, haggard,
      half-starved, hollow-eyed, jejune, lean, marantic, marasmic,
      papery, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, phthisic, pinched,
      poor, preshrunk, puny, scrawny, sear, sere, shriveled,
      shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, spare, starved,
      starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin, underfed, undernourished, wasted,
      wasted away, wasting away, weazened, weazeny, wilted, withered,
      wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled