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emaciation
(redirected from gauntness)

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emaciation [i‚mā·sē′ā·shən]
(medicine)
A wasted condition of the body; the process of losing flesh so as to become extremely lean.


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Barbitta has blonde hair, colorfully tattooed forearms, and a wraith-like gauntness.
At first a runner may appear a little gaunt, but all he or she requires is reassurance, because in time the gauntness disappears.
His very corporeal makeup seems to have changed for this new program: the rubbery essence of Bertie Wooster has given way to a steely gauntness.
 
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