Both Uses of
gaunt
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- 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
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) 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.