emaciate

[US]/ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪt/
[UK]/ɪˈmeʃɪˌet/

Translation

vt. 使消瘦;使衰弱
vi. 消瘦下去
Word Forms
過去式emaciated
現在分詞emaciating
第三人稱單數emaciates
過去分詞emaciated
複數emaciates

Example Sentences

she was so emaciated she could hardly stand.

她身體虛弱得幾乎無法站立。

A long illness had emaciated my father.

長期臥病使我父親瘦弱了。

his severely emaciated body

他那瘦骨嶙峋的身軀

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone.

享格利·喬是個瘦弱,神經過敏的可憐蟲,一張黑臉皮包骨頭,沒有什麼肌肉。

Real-world Examples

His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless.

他全身佝僂,瘦骨嶙峋,幾乎沒有肉。

Source: Brave New World

In no time at all, the disease had emaciated her.

很快,疾病就使她消瘦了。

Source: Women Who Changed the World

He was emaciated, the bones of his face sticking out sharply against the yellowish skin.

骨頭都從他面黃肌瘦的臉上突了出來。

Source: 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I remember when they brought you back to school, emaciated and wrapped up in a shawl.

回到學校來的時候非常消瘦,裹着圍巾。

Source: Education of Love

Also, that your father was at one time much emaciated by illness.

另外,你的父親曾經因病非常消瘦。

Source: Middlemarch (Part Four)

The next night, an emaciated man with long matted black hair obscuring his face was seen walking towards them from the darkness, and that was enough.

第二天晚上,有人看到一個消瘦的男人從黑暗中朝他們走來, 長長的黑色頭髮亂蓬蓬的, 遮住了他的臉, 這就足夠了。

Source: Learn English with Matthew.

Worple, who was a small, stout, bespectacled man, grabbed Harry's hand and shook it enthusiastically; the vampire Sanguini, who was tall and emaciated with dark shadows under his eyes, merely nodded.

沃普爾是個戴着眼鏡的小個子男人,他抓住哈利的手熱切地握着。吸血鬼血尼又高又瘦,眼睛下有黑圈。

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Several months elapsed before I was able to quit my bed; and when at length I was moved to a Sopha, I was so faint, spiritless, and emaciated, that I could not cross the room without assistance.

幾個月過去了,我才能夠起牀。最後,當我被轉移到 Sopha 時,我非常虛弱、無精打采、憔悴不堪,沒有幫助我無法穿過房間。

Source: Monk (Part 1)

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