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# gaunt

«gaunt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **very thin, with a bony, hungry look, often from illness…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (gaunt, gaunter, gauntest)

### meaning for a pupil

Gaunt means very thin, with a bony, hungry look, often from illness or hunger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Job describes the outcasts of society, starving and wasting away. The book is read as a study of the suffering of the innocent and the limits of human understanding. In the primary lessons: in stories, a hungry beggar or a grim, bony face looks gaunt

### examples

- They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (Writings JOB.30.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/#x1)
- After the long winter she looked pale and gaunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/#x2)
- The old beggar was gaunt and grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/#x3)
- His gaunt face frightened the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.751/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gaunt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gaunt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.