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Definition
very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
- Exhausted and barely able to eat, Sylvia crept through November, haunted by nightmares and growing ever more gaunt.p. 256.0
- Pete was gaunt, and he'd gone largely bald.p. 329.2
There are no more uses of "gaunt" in Unbroken by Hillenbrand.
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