Emaciate

(e-mā'shĭ-āt, 95), v. i. [imp. & p. p. EMACIATED; p. pr. & vb. n. EMACIATING.] [Lat. emaciare, emaciatum, from e, out, and maciare, to make lean or meager, from macies, leanness, from macere, to be lean, macer, lean.] To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite, or other cause; to waste away in flesh.

He emaciated and pined away in the too anxious inquiry. Browne.

v. t. To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness.