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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
anorexic
 
SYLLABICATION:an·o·rex·ic
PRONUNCIATION:  n-rksk
ADJECTIVE:1. Suffering from or afflicted with anorexia nervosa. 2. Anorectic. 3. Characterized by severe economy of style and expression: “The book consists of nineteen rather anorexic stories, stripped of all but vestigial traces of emotion and often of plot” (Madison Smartt Bell).
OTHER FORMS:ano·rexic —NOUN
 
 
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