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gaunt - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'gaunt' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gaunt [ a.]
- Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

Meaning of 'gaunt' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gaunt [ s]
Meaning (1):
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Example in sentence:
  • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys;
  • eyes were haggard and cavernous;
  • kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration;
  • small pinched faces

Nearby Words:

gauche gaucherie gaucho gauchos gaud gaud-day gauded gaudery gaudful gaudies

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