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Abmagern — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • attenuate verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  • emaciation noun The act of making very lean.

Senses

Abmagern is used for these senses in English:

  • emaciate (intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.
  • emaciation The act of making very lean.
  • lose weight (intransitive) To become less heavy or obese.

attenuate — full definition

  1. verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  2. verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  3. verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
  4. verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.

emaciation — full definition

  1. noun The act of making very lean.
  2. noun The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

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