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Значения термина bonyness на английском

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Синонимы
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
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