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Enfeebled vs Emaciated - What's the difference?

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Enfeebled is a related term of emaciated.


As verbs the difference between enfeebled and emaciated

is that enfeebled is (enfeeble) while emaciated is (emaciate).

As an adjective emaciated is

thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

enfeebled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enfeeble)

    • enfeeble

    English

    Verb

    (enfeebl)
  • To make feeble.
  • * 2014 , Michael White, " Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
    • In the face of enfeebled , self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.
  • * 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,
    • "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."

    Synonyms

    * weaken

    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

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (emaciate)

    • Related terms

    * emaciate * emaciation

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