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debilitated

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??b?l?te?t?d/

Adjective

debilitated (not comparable)

  1. Weakened.
    His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight.
  2. run down, damaged, in disrepair.

Translations

Verb

debilitated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of debilitate

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gaunt

English

Alternative forms

  • gant (dialectal, Scotland)
  • gent (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English gawnt, gawnte (“lean, slender”), from Old French [Term?], probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source, related to Old Norse gandr (“magic staff, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“to beat, hit, drive”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gônt, IPA(key): /???nt/
  • (some accents) enPR: gänt, IPA(key): /???nt/
  • Rhymes: -??nt, -??nt

Adjective

gaunt (comparative gaunter, superlative gauntest)

  1. lean, angular, and bony
  2. haggard, drawn, and emaciated
  3. bleak, barren, and desolate

Synonyms

  • scraggy, scrawny, skinny

Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gaunt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

  • Tunga, untag

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

  • gant

Verb

gaunt

  1. To yawn.

Noun

gaunt (plural gaunts)

  1. A yawn.

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