Synset

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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cadaverous

emaciated

gaunt

haggard

pinched

skeletal

wasted

sample sentences

"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
"eyes were haggard and cavernous"
"small pinched faces"
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"