單詞
emaciate
英 [?'me?s?e?t]
美[?'me??,et]
基本信息
- vt. 使消瘦；使衰弱；使貧瘠
- vi. 消瘦下去
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?emaciates;過去式:?emaciated;過去分詞:?emaciated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?emaciating;
英文詞源
- 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.