- Abnormally thin - Ate a medic on the loose when undernourished - Gaunt - I came back at editor looking haggard - Skin-and-bone - Too thin - Undernourished
- Clasped, ... to - Clutched, ... onto - Held on - Held on tight to organ following careless start - of Cling - imp. & p. p. of Cling. - Wasted away; shrunken.