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Ailing vs Emaciated - What's the difference?

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Ailing is a related term of emaciated.


As verbs the difference between ailing and emaciated

is that ailing is while emaciated is (emaciate).

As adjectives the difference between ailing and emaciated

is that ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell while emaciated is thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

As a noun ailing

is an ailment.

ailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ailment.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

    • Anagrams

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    emaciated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
    • The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (emaciate)

    • Related terms

    * emaciate * emaciation

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