OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 7260

gaunt

/ɡɔːnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chupado • demacrado • enjuto • entrénsico • esmirriado • esqueletado • flaquítico • hético • macilento • raquítico
Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.
A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.
[T]he gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find.
demacrado
Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.
But all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained possession of my brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms—the gaunt s…
Ready-money Mortiboy's parlour is a gaunt, cold room, with long, narrow windows, wire blinds, horsehair chairs, a horsehair sofa, red moreen curtains, and a round table with a red…