gaunt in English

adjective
1
(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.
She was gaunt , painfully thin, expressionless, wearing a sleeveless top, dark pants, and sandals.
synonyms:haggarddrawnthinleanskinnyspindlysparebonyangularrawbonedpinchedhollow-cheekedscrawnyscraggyas thin as a railcadaverousskeletalemaciatedskin-and-boneswastedwitheredetiolatedanorexic(looking) like a bag of bonesspindle-shanked

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1. 3 She looked gaunt and exhausted.

2. Bony and lean; gaunt: an Angular face.

3. It looked gaunt and inhospitable, he realised.

4. 1 Her face was gaunt and grey.

5. 5 The house looked gaunt and unwelcoming.

6. With that red, gaunt, and Colloped neck astrain.

7. His eyes were sunken in his gaunt face.

8. 10 It looked gaunt and inhospitable, he realised.

9. A wraith with bright eyes in his gaunt face.

10. 4 His eyes were sunken in his gaunt face.

11. And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag.

12. The door opened to reveal a gaunt, clean-shaven man.

13. 8 A wraith with bright eyes in his gaunt face.

14. 9 He was gaunt and hollow-eyed; his voice trembled.

15. 17 The strong and darkly handsome visage was gaunt and haggard.

16. 7 The door opened to reveal a gaunt, clean-shaven man.

17. 6 Above on the hillside was a large, gaunt, grey house.

18. Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.

19. At the far end, on the dais, Athelstan glimpsed John of Gaunt.

20. He was also gaunt and Cadaverous, and as dark as the Semitic

21. The gaunt young inmate fished his bowl out from under his cot.

22. Gaunt raised his hand as if welcoming the plaudits of the crowd.

23. 25 There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features.

24. 16 He was in his mid-fifties with a gaunt face and thinning wavy red hair.

25. 14 The gaunt young inmate fished his bowl out from under his cot.

26. The Arab Abul Ismail, erect and gaunt and impassive in turban and robes.

27. 2 Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.

28. 39 synonyms for Bony: thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, haggard, emaciated, scrawny

29. 30 He has lost his hair and some teeth and appeared quite gaunt.

30. 18 The District Attorney at forty-four had the gaunt look of a man twenty years older.

31. 19 The Arab Abul Ismail, erect and gaunt and impassive in turban and robes.

32. 7 Lou Minton was a wiry man with gaunt, chiseled features and prematurely gray hair, combed straight back.

33. One was gaunt, with flinty eyes a long white beard a face a winter frost.

34. Synonyms for Cadaverous include gaunt, emaciated, scrawny, thin, skeletal, haggard, wasted, bony, scraggy and pinched

35. There sat the Babushka Stepanida, a black figure in her black shawl, gaunt and shrivelled

36. 21 It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.

37. The District Attorney at forty-four had the gaunt look of a man twenty years older.

38. The Collector looked down at the gaunt, upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs.

39. His face was remarkable: gaunt, wizened and pale, the skin pulled taut across the prominent bones.

40. Pedro's heiress was his eldest surviving daughter Constanza, who married John of Gaunt in September 13

41. The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.

42. Commissar Ibram Gaunt (warhammer 40k, 28mm miniature, warhammer 40k miniatures, astra militarum, imperial guard 40k, wargaming) brothervinni

43. 27 The devilish smile, oblique and sharp as a scar, had come back to the gaunt face.

44. 12 The Collector looked down at the gaunt, upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs.

45. A stray mongrel appeared at the end of the alley, its body gaunt from years of neglect.

46. Lou Minton was a wiry man with gaunt, chiseled features and prematurely gray hair, combed straight back.

47. 11 He was also gaunt and cadaverous, and as dark as the Semitic people of the Holy Land.

48. 30 The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.

49. In 1334, the Abbey entered a legal battle for control over it, finally purchasing the advowson from John of Gaunt in 1365.

50. 29 The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.