Vocabulary
Emaciated
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
Urdu meaning
لاغر، بیماری کی وجہ سے نہایت کمزور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Its equivalent today would be the image published of an emaciated, skeletal Palestinian child cradled in the lap of a helpless mother.
- Months and months of images of emaciated and starving children, and of bloodied families and independent estimates putting the number of those annihilated now running into six figures, are making Western leaders squirm in their seats.
- Meanwhile, three-year-old Sunny was found emaciated, her teeth forcibly removed to render her defenceless, and displaying signs of extreme anxiety all common in the dancing bear trade.
- A similar story can be extended to an emaciated industrial sector which is dominated by profiteers.
- The feline, emaciated and barely able to move, is suffering due to old age, according to the zoo director.
Synonyms
thin, skeletal, bony, wasted, thin as a rake, scrawny, skinny, scraggy, skin and bones.
Curator example
“she was so emaciated she could hardly stand”
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