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undernourished

[ uhn-der-nur-isht, -nuhr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
not given essential elements for proper development:
emotionally undernourished.

First recorded in 1925–30; under- + nourish + -ed ²

“He was undernourished, not necessarily malnourished,” she said.

Many countries were devastated, undernourished and stripped bare of food and agricultural equipment because of enemy occupation.

Under such conditions many voles appear to be undernourished, and some are actually emaciated.

In their wan faces, in their undernourished bodies, would be indelibly written the bitter defeat of their parents.

The undernourished proletariat lacked the initiative to go out where the food came from.

By the way, she was so skinny to this time and so undernourished; look as skinny as she could be and she did not feel good.

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