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
- verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
emaciation — full definition
- noun The act of making very lean.
- noun The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.