D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gaunt

/gônt/ · IPA /ɡɔnt/
01 a. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
  1. 1.
    Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
    “A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land.” — Nichols.