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Meanings of gaunt in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wasted"
Examples for "wasted"
1
But each year hundreds of thousands of tonnes are lost or wasted.
2
Time is wasted when both sides in debate employ the same tactics.
3
Every second that passed, every second they wasted, he thought of Lizzie.
4
He speaks the way he designs product: not a single wasted word.
5
That small debacle alone wasted almost three million pounds of taxpayers' money.
1
Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2
Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3
I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4
But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5
I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
1
You are in trouble; I can see it in your haggard eyes.
2
Tears blinded her eyes; her face was wan; her mien terribly haggard.
3
The place was a ruin, haggard and falling apart, leaking water everywhere.
4
First light found the small group of Christians haggard and mentally worn.
5
The haggard face under the gray hair turned slowly toward the messenger.
1
They account for almost 60 per cent of all bony foot problems.
2
Objective: To determine whether knee flexion influenced bony contact movements during flexion.
3
Thus, localization did not rely on bony landmarks alone in these cases.
4
He could still feel his young charge's bony shoulder in his grip.
5
The dark coat-sleeve flapped on the bony skeleton of the unknown arm.
1
Unfortunately, these elements are not present in all cases involving skeletal remains.
2
Background: Inadequate dietary protein intake results in loss of skeletal muscle mass.
3
The skeletal soldiers all took one step forward, making their weapons ready.
4
However, mechanisms underlying skeletal complications in diabetes are still not well understood.
5
We also present evidence for mild skeletal muscle disease in affected persons.
1
In the most severe cases, people would become emaciated, delirious, and incapacitated.
2
Sea lion pups, emaciated and starving, have washed up on California beaches.
3
We could not keep life in some of the poor emaciated frames.
4
He could have easily disengaged it; it was small, weak and emaciated.
5
In Jamila's case, a Reuters photo of the emaciated child went viral.
1
Heart, cornea, double-lung, or pancreas transplants have to come from cadaverous donors.
2
There was no mistaking the metallic glistening eyes and the cadaverous skin.
3
By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed.
4
At his heels strode a tall, cadaverous person in a checked suit.
5
I dressed, looking like the cadaverous ghost I felt myself to be.
Usage of gaunt in English
1
Not a creature abroad; the tall gaunt houses staring in the moonlight.
2
He's all purpose and business, lean and gaunt beneath a new haircut.
3
He had gained weight, yet still gave the impression of being gaunt.
4
Even in the firelight how gaunt and strained it looked to her.
5
A tail, gaunt figure loomed up in the bow of the lifeboat.
6
Surely that gaunt preacher had the true fire in his gray soul.
7
A gaunt man, armed with a bamboo cane, stood behind the animal.
8
The fog was puffing through the gaunt arms, festooning the rigid hands.
9
The gaunt man with the scarred lip was the first to speak.
10
Though the word 'boy' hardly seemed to do this gaunt individual justice.
11
The faint mockery of a smile wavered across the painfully gaunt face.
12
His wife, Rachel, looking frail and gaunt, issued a similar impassioned plea.
13
He was the gaunt, taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel.
14
The great gaunt figure sitting by her side quivered at the sound.
15
Nothing but abject poverty, cruel, gaunt want stares me in the face.
16
Pavek grew gaunt from fever and denial; Sassel's purse grew even thinner.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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