gaunt

gaunt has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
• a.. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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"