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Significados de boniness em inglês

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

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        Examples for "emaciation"
        Examples for "emaciation"
        1
        His body was thin and fine and tight, with a healthy emaciation.
        Perdido Street Station
        2
        She's thin almost to the point of emaciation, and pale as milk.
        End of Watch
        3
        Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
        Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
        4
        This man appeared in tolerable health as to body, his emaciation excepted.
        American Prisoners of the Revolution
        5
        Hard to tell, due to his bruises and emaciation under the rags.
        Changer of Worlds
        1
        We obtained them in enormous abundance in a maceration of fish.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
        2
        For the production of the huile and pomade they are treated by maceration.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
        3
        A sinful mortal like thyself; but worn down with long vigils and maceration.
        Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
        4
        This fleshly maceration is the symbolic preparation for the conversion he subsequently undergoes.
        The Guardian
        5
        They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
        1
        Spider's arms, impossibly strong for their gauntness, cradled her against his chest.
        The bone palace
        2
        His features, always inclined to gauntness, became even sharper and more pronounced.
        Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
        3
        The gauntness, she knew, was a side effect of cold sleep.
        The Sails of Tau Ceti
        4
        He had lost weight, and his cheekbones stuck out with gauntness.
        The viking takes a knight
        5
        It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
        The Guardian
        Uso de boniness em inglês
        1
        The doctor felt the boniness of his own face and hands.
        All souls' rising
        2
        They were an odd couple: Brutish, fat and carnal, Poor, a stick figure-thoughsturdy in her boniness-constantlygrubbing, ever fearful.
        Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
        3
        "The food, my lord?" persisted the unlovely boniness that was Marilla Theron.
        Watcher of the Dead
        4
        "You needn't worry over my boniness," she assured him cheerfully.
        The Vision of Desire
        Boniness ao longo do tempo