gaunt /ˈgɔnt, ˈgɑnt/
(a.)憔悴的,荒涼的,瘦削的
Gaunt a. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. “The gaunt mastiff.”
A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. --Nichols.
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gaunt
adj : 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 concentration" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal,
wasted]