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]