əˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd əˈmeɪsieɪtɪd ɡɔːnt ˈskɛlɪt(ə)l ˈweɪstɪd very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys eyes were haggard and cavernous small pinched faces kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration