2 uses
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Definition
very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
- Pete was gaunt, and he'd gone largely bald.p. 238.7
- Civilians were in shocking condition: the limbs of the adults were grotesquely swollen from beriberi; the children were gaunt.p. 210.3
There are no more uses of "gaunt" in Unbroken - adapted for young adults.
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