English > gaunt: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. |
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| Example | "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" |
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| Synonyms | cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| Broader | thin, lean | lacking excess flesh |
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| Spanish | cadavérico, chupado, consumido, delgaducho, demacrada, demacrado, descarnado, enclenque, enjuto, escuálido, esquelético, huesudo, macilenta, macilento, raquítico, seco |
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| Catalan | cadavèric, consumit, demacrat, descarnat, escanyolit, escarransit, esquelètic, magre, ossut, raquític, ressec, sec, xuclat |
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| Nouns | gauntness | extreme / extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) |
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