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    gaunt

    gaunt - Dictionary definition and meaning for word gaunt

    Definition
    (adj) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    Example Sentence
    • 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
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for gaunt

Gaunt = g + aunt Imagine you have an aunt and you know generally they are fat..now your aunt want to get slimmer...c likes to emaciate..

G[rand] AUNT, or imagine as G[reat grand] AUNT... is generally lean and weak due to old age.

if someone haunts u , u become gaunt

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relate it with "jaunt" which means a trip, after returning from trip u feel weak, emaciated

jaunty: playful,cheerful (remember Jonty Rhodes) gaunt: thin (jonty was thin and very fit)

sounds like haunt.. haunted bye voldemort memories harry face was gaunt

Enrique Iglesias has a gaunt face.

gaunt=ghanta=penis....its thin bony and angular....so got it??;)

relate it to "quant". If u r weak(emaciate) in quant it means u r gaunt

GAUN(gone) Thin


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