get thin
痩 centers on becoming thin or losing weight, often in the context of illness or wasting away.
痩 is the modern Japanese simplified form of 瘦. The older form combines 疒 (sickness) with 叟, which likely contributed the sound and the idea of wasting away. The modern simplification replaces the inner component with a simpler shape.
The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around a thin, reduced inner shape, like a body wasting away from illness.
For ソウ, imagine a person getting so thin they look like a soul (ソウ) leaving the body: soul -> ソウ, and the sickness enclosure shows the wasting away.
losing weight; slimming
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim
slim figure; slender body
skinny
to get too skinny
to be emaciated; to be nothing but skin and bones
too thin; underweight
thin; slim; skinny
skinny person; scrawny person; scarecrow; bag of bones
even though one has fallen on hard times; however down on one's luck one may be
thin person who eats a lot; big eater who stays thin
barren soil
barren soil
slender build; slender figure; leptosome; leptosomatic habit
barren mountain
skinny man; shabby-looking man
emaciation; emaciated body
thin leg
thin arm
weight-loss drug; slimming medicine; diet pill