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verb cause to grow thin or weak
verb grow weak and thin or waste away physically
originBorrowed from Latin ēmaciātus, perfect passive participle of ēmaciō (“to make lean, to cause to waste away”), from ex- (“out”) + maciēs (“leanness”), from macer (“thin”).
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