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emaciations

emaciations is the plural of emaciation.

Meaning of emaciation

Noun

emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)

  1. The act of making very lean.
  2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
    • In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13

Questions about emaciations

What is emaciations the plural of?
Emaciations is the plural of emaciation.

Words near emaciations in the dictionary

  1. emaciated
  2. emaciatedness
  3. emaciates
  4. emaciating
  5. emaciation
  6. emaciations
  7. emacity
  8. emacs
  9. emacsen
  10. emacses
  11. emaculate

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