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UK
/ɡˈɔːnt/
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[ US /ˈɡɔnt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɔnt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
small pinched faces
eyes were haggard and cavernous
How To Use gaunt In A Sentence
- The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
- With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
- His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
- He was grey and gaunt and we both cried. Times, Sunday Times
- D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
- The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
- No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
- That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom. Chapter 13
- a race of long gaunt men
- In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
