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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gaunt \Gaunt\, a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.] Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. ``The gaunt mastiff.'' --Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. --Nichols. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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