To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
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To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.
To make lean; to cause to waste away.
Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
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