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haggard in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"emaciated bony hands"; "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"
bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
- showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
"looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
careworn drawn haggard raddled worn
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