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Gaunt Hunger Cold Skinny Remember Aunt ɡɔːnt Adj.憔悴的;骨瘦如柴的

Front gaunt
Pron [ɡɔːnt]
Back 【gaunt】
adj.憔悴的;骨瘦如柴的
Hunger and suffering from cold had made the lost hikers gaunt.
迷路的徒步旅行者因饥饿和寒冷而骨瘦如柴。
Vocab
gauntvery thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

You can never be too rich or too thin, but you certainly can be too gaunt. It means you look skinny like you're sick, not skinny like you have a personal nutritionist slapping your hand when you reach for a bonbon.

A good way to remember gaunt is that it rhymes with haunt, and gaunt people look pale, drawn, and wasted — like you'd expect a haunting ghost to appear. Another way to remember it is that g- + aunt is like great-aunt, and often when you appear to be gaunt you look like you're old — like your Great Aunt Mildred.

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