All 6 Uses
gaunt
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- He was pale and gaunt, and his skin had a yellowish tint to it and was parchment-like on his face and hands.†
Chpt 2.11
- He had never regained the weight he had lost during the weeks he had spent in the hospital after his heart attack, and he was always tired, his face pale and gaunt, his eyes watery.†
Chpt 3.13
- He was weak and gaunt, confined to his bed and almost completely incapable of any kind of physical activity.†
Chpt 3.15
- He grew thin and gaunt, and the angles and bones of his face and hands jutted like sharp peaks from beneath his skin.†
Chpt 3.17
- I heard the tapping of metal-capped shoes upon the third-floor stairway, then in the hallway over my head; and then Danny was standing at the head of the stairs, tall, gaunt, an almost spectral figure with his beard and earlocks and black satin caftan.†
Chpt 3.18
Definitions:
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(1)
(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, gaunt can reference a place such as a landscape or a home, in which case it indicates that the place is bleak or barren.