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gaunt
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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ɡɔːnt
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adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
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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
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