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She looked gaunt from the chemotherapy.gaunt = very thin
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Don Quixote looked gaunt and tired.
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With a gaunt forefinger she stroked the lustrous strand above her mouth. (source)gaunt = very thin and bony
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Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood. (source)gaunt = very thin and long-suffering
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Their faces were gaunt and bony with dark nubs of hair. (source)gaunt = very thin
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The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. (source)gaunt = very thin and bony
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Bud's gaunt face seemed to get blacker. (source)gaunt = very thin and bony
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There's things to eat if you look hard, but don't antagonize the night-gaunts.† (source)
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After each visit, he returned looking gaunter, his snout often rubbed raw from where he had fretted it against the grating of his cage, and when he got home he would collapse in the corner and sleep heavily for hours.† (source)
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To Nadia, Saeed was if anything more handsome than he had been before, his hard work and his gauntness suiting him, giving him a contemplative air, making out of his boyishness a man of substance.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Her obstetrician, Dr. Ashley, gauntly handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way, with fine sand-colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress.† (source)
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I was just sorry for them bone-gaunted mules.† (source)
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Without question, they were the gauntest, mangiest, slinkiest, and most oppressed group I had ever laid eyes on.† (source)
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Peter had a glimpse of a horrible, grey, gaunt creature, half man and half wolf, in the very act of leaping upon a boy about his own age, (source)
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Don't want the night-gaunts stealing him.† (source)
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By my faith, said one of the knights, his name was Sir Gaunter, I will ride after him and assay him for all his pride, and ye may behold how that I speed.† (source)
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