a mental illness that makes a person refuse to eat

gauntness

a kind of plant disease

disease; plague

of or at a crisis

fault-finding, detracting

to be, begin to be, decaying

breaking down, collapse

to produce, take on, a colour, usually by dropping (something) in a liquid

failing, expiring

the decay of a part of the body because the supply of blood to it has been stopped

decay

causing ruin

disastrous, devastating