Word Meanings - EMACERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. Bullokar.

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• EMACIATE
  To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne. (more info) maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.