abmagern — meaning in English
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English meaning
- attenuate verb To make something smaller, weaker or less in amount.
- emaciation noun The process of making someone very thin.
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 make something smaller, weaker or less in amount.
- verb To make something thinner, for example by shaping, starving or decay.
- verb To grow thinner or become less.
- verb To make a bacterium or virus less able to cause disease.
emaciation — full definition
- noun The process of making someone very thin.
- noun The condition of being emaciated, or of becoming excessively thin.
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