Emaciating [verb]

His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.

Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.

The features become sharper, and sometimes the whole body begins to emaciate, while the pulse quickens.

Famine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.

He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.

The animals lose their appetite from the first, begin to emaciate, and show symptoms of malnutrition and starvation.

On parlor floors and on the hard pavement emaciate forms were stretched in the convulsions of death.

They should frequently emaciate their bodies by vows and fasts.

Her cheeks were pale and emaciate, and her forced smile only proclaimed more loudly the grief which was consuming her heart.

Many of these infants are of such low vitality, however, that in spite of the most careful feeding they emaciate and die.