单词
emaciate
英 [?'me?s?e?t]
美[?'me??,et]
基本信息
- vt. 使消瘦；使衰弱；使贫瘠
- vi. 消瘦下去
GRE
词态变化
第三人称单数:?emaciates;过去式:?emaciated;过去分词:?emaciated;现在分词:?emaciating;
英文词源
- emaciate
- emaciate: see meagre
- emaciate (v.)
- 1620s "cause to lose flesh" (implied in emaciating), from Latin emaciatus, past participle of emaciare "make lean, cause to waste away," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + macies "leanness," from macer "thin" (see macro-). Intransitive meaning "become lean, waste away" is from 1640s. Related: Emaciated.