emaciate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to grow thin or weak
The treatment emaciated him
Types & categories
- enfeeble hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
grow weak and thin or waste away physically
She emaciated during the chemotherapy
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
Related & opposite
- bonyness derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | causes | Related & opposite | emaciate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bonyness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wastage |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wasting |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | enfeeble |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bonyness |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |