What does gaunted mean?
Gaunted means starved.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
starved.
[...] and they were gone all day and into the night and they came back worn and brush-torn to leave gaunted horses in the corral with good feed in the trough [...]
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Gaunted means starved.
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[...] and they were gone all day and into the night and they came back worn and brush-torn to leave gaunted horses in the corral with good feed in the trough [...]
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