émacier
French, verb/e.ma.sje/
émacier is a French verb meaning “to make someone emaciated, to emaciate someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amaigrir”.
What does émacier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make someone emaciated, to emaciate someone
- 2
to become emaciated
Il s'est émacié pendant la famine.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Amaigrir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émacier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émaciant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émacié participle past
- émacie first-person indicative present
- émacies indicative present second-person
- émacions first-person indicative plural
- émaciez indicative plural present
- émacient indicative plural present
- émaciais first-person imperfect indicative
- émaciait imperfect indicative singular
- émaciions first-person imperfect indicative
- émaciiez imperfect indicative plural
- émaciaient imperfect indicative plural
- émaciai first-person historic indicative
- émacias historic indicative past
- émacia historic indicative past
- émaciâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émacier?
- /e.ma.sje/
- \e.ma.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.