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gaunt

C1 adj

gaunt /ɡɔnt/ nghĩa là gầy guộc, xương xẩu

Các nghĩa

  1. gầy guộc, xương xẩu

    Angular, bony, and lean.

    [H]e presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, boney figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, […]

    Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / Gaunt the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!

    He rose with difficulty; a tall, gaunt, terrible form, black and weird against the shining sea and the starry skies.

  2. hốc hác, tiều tụy

    Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.

    VVhen once he [a horse]'s broken, feed him full and high: / Indulge his Grovvth, and his gaunt ſides ſupply.

    [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.

    A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.

  3. hoang vắng, tiêu điều

    Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.

    figuratively

    Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.

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