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Gauntness

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Noun

1. boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration

extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

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Gauntness

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adjective
1. 
bony and emaciated in appearance
2. 
(of places) bleak or desolate

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Gauntness

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adjective
1. 
thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated
2. 
looking grim, forbidding, or desolate

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Gauntness

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adj. gaunt·er, gaunt·est
1. Thin or emaciated: "Her smile took up ever more of her increasingly gaunt face" (Lindsey Crittenden). See Synonyms at lean2.
2. Bleak or desolate: "She walked along fast ... scared of ... the few shadowy people and the old gaunt houses with their wide inky doorways" (John Dos Passos).

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