E·ma·ci·ate v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating.]  To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. “He emaciated and pined away.”
  emaciated
       adj : very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
             "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of
             gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
             cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
             wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony,
             cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
              wasted]