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Anorectic

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Noun

1. anorectic, anorexic

a person suffering from anorexia nervosa

Adjective

2. anorectic, anorexic

suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

3. anorectic, anorexigenic

causing loss of appetite

Example Sentences:
'an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anorectic

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noun
1. 
loss of appetite
2. Also called: anorexia nervosa (nɜːˈvəʊsə )
a disorder characterized by fear of becoming fat and refusal of food, leading to debility and even death

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Anorectic

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noun
1. 
lack of appetite for food
2. 
an eating disorder, chiefly in young women, characterized by aversion to food and obsession with weight loss, and manifested in self-induced starvation and excessive exercise, etc.
in full anorexia nerˈvosa cf. bulimia

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anorectic

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adj.
1. Marked by loss of appetite.
2. Suppressing or causing loss of appetite.
3. Of or affected with anorexia nervosa.
n.
1. One who is affected with anorexia nervosa.
2. An anorectic drug.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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