Both Uses
gaunt
in
The Crucible
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- He is gaunt, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.†
p. 125.3 *
- Her clothes are dirty; her face is pale and gaunt.†
p. 131.5
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.