🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

कुपोषण

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kuposhan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Emaciation/ɪˌmeɪ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"अत्यधिक कुपोषण के कारण बच्चे का शरीर बहुत कमज़ोर हो गया था।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of being abnormally thin or weak due to lack of food or illness.

    "Years of severe malnutrition led to visible emaciation in the stray animals."
  2. 2

    The act or process of becoming extremely lean or wasted away.

    "The rapid emaciation of the patient required immediate clinical intervention."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'emaciatus', the past participle of 'emaciare', meaning to make lean, from 'ex-' (out, thoroughly) + 'macies' (leanness, from macer meaning lean). It entered medical and literary English in the early 17th century to describe severe physical wasting caused by disease, starvation, or extreme poverty.

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