meaning of gaunt
1. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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
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Related Words
gaunt | gauntlet | gauntleted | gauntletted | gauntly | gauntness | gauntree | gauntry |