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Emaciate, v. a. Make lean or thin or spare, reduce in flesh, cause to waste away.

Emaciate, v. n. Waste away, pine, grow lean or thin or spare, become reduced in flesh.

Emaciate, Emaciated, a. Lean, thin, lank, attenuated, wasted, gaunt, skinny, meagre, worn to a shadow, reduced to a skeleton.

Emaciation, n. Leanness, lankness, meagreness, wasting away, pining away, tabes, tabefaction.

Emanate, v. a.

    1. Flow forth continuously, pour out incessantly.
    2. Issue, arise, spring, flow, proceed, emerge, go out.

Emanation, n.

    1. Flowing out, issuing, issuance, arising, springing, flowing, emerging, emergence.
    2. Efflux, effluence, issue.

Emancipate, v. a. Enfranchise, manumit, liberate, disenthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle, unchain, free, set free, set at liberty.

Emancipation, n. Enfranchisement, manumission, liberation, release, deliverance.

Emasculate, v. a.

    1. Castrate, geld, glib, deprive of virility, deprive of procreative power.
    2. Weaken, enervate, debilitate, unman, effeminate, effeminize, emolliate, make effeminate, deprive of native vigor.

Emasculation, n.

    1. Castration, gelding, glibbing, orchotomy.
    2. Weakening, debilitation, enervation, unmanning, effemination.
    3. Effeminacy, weakness, softness, enervation.

Embalm, v. a.

    1. Preserve from decay (by aromatics or antiseptics).
    2. Preserve, enshrine, cherish, keep unimpaired.