gaunt

အင်္ဂလိပ်

အသံထွက်

• enPR: gônt, IPA: /ɡɔːnt/, SAMPA: /gO:nt/

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နာမဝိသေသန

gaunt (comparative gaunter, superlative gauntest)

1. ပိန်ချုံးသော။ ပိန်ညှော်သော။ ပိန်ချည့်သော။ ကြုံလှီသော။
   • 1894, Joseph Jacobs, chapter 1, The Fables of Aesop^[၁]:

     A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.

   • 1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, His Last Bow^[၂]:

     In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.

2. ကြည့်မကောင်းသော။ ကျက်သရေမရှိသော။
   • 1908, William Hope Hodgson, chapter 14, The House on the Borderland^[၃]:

     Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.

ကြောင်းတူသံကွဲများ

• (ပိန်ချုံး): scraggy, scrawny, skinny