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Gaunt

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Adjective

1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Example Sentences:
'emaciated bony hands'
'a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys'
'eyes were haggard and cavernous'
'small pinched faces'
'kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gaunt

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adjective
1. 
bony and emaciated in appearance
2. 
(of places) bleak or desolate

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Gaunt

see synonyms of gaunt
adjective
1. 
thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated
2. 
looking grim, forbidding, or desolate

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

Gaunt

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adj. gaunt·er, gaunt·est
1. Thin or emaciated: "Her smile took up ever more of her increasingly gaunt face" (Lindsey Crittenden). See Synonyms at lean2.
2. Bleak or desolate: "She walked along fast ... scared of ... the few shadowy people and the old gaunt houses with their wide inky doorways" (John Dos Passos).

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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