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gaunted

gaunted adjective: starved.

Adjective

gaunted (comparative more gaunted, superlative most gaunted)

  1. starved
    • [...] and they were gone all day and into the night and they came back worn and brush-torn to leave gaunted horses in the corral with good feed in the trough [...]1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 117

Forms of gaunted

comparativemore gaunted
superlativemost gaunted

Origin of gaunted

From gaunt.

Questions about gaunted

What does gaunted mean?
Gaunted means starved.
What part of speech is gaunted?
Gaunted is an adjective.

Words near gaunted in the dictionary

  1. gaungs
  2. Gaunless
  3. gaunpalika
  4. gaunpalikas
  5. gaunt
  6. gaunted
  7. gaunter
  8. gauntest
  9. gauntlet
  10. gauntleted
  11. gauntlets

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