definition of
gaunt

[1] #1 gaunt s. [bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration". wn