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haggard

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haggard in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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 
  2. 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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