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debilitated

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??b?l?te?t?d/

Adjective

debilitated (not comparable)

  1. Weakened.
    His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight.
  2. run down, damaged, in disrepair.

Translations

Verb

debilitated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of debilitate

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scrawny

English

Alternative forms

  • scranny (dialectal)

Etymology

A variant of dialectal scranny (thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality), perhaps from Old Norse skran (rubbish; junk) +? -y. Compare English scrannel (lean; meager; poor; worthless).

Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (to be shrivelled).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?skr??ni/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?skr?ni/
  • Rhymes: -??ni

Adjective

scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)

  1. Thin, malnourished and weak.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Related terms

  • scran

Translations

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