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malnourished
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
malnourished
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pale, malnourished child
▪ During the 1930s a large proportion of Britain's urban population was malnourished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Children who are malnourished with chronic diarrhoea have defective gastric acid secretion.
▪ Food packets were given to malnourished patients.
▪ For each treatment, nourished and malnourished patients responded similarly.
▪ It may be used to supplement the action of the indicated remedy in such anaemic or malnourished people.
▪ Many patients, especially the old and economically weak, are already malnourished when they go into hospital.
▪ Most are malnourished, only saved from starvation by water and food provided enroute by the Red Cross.
▪ None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.
▪ Under the portico, bodies are sprawled, a tangle of limbs of malnourished young men.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
malnourished

malnourished \malnourished\ adj. Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed. [Narrower terms: starved, starving; unfed; foodless]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malnourished

1906, from mal- "bad, badly" + nourished (see nourish).

Wiktionary
malnourished

a. suffering from malnutrition

WordNet
malnourished

adj. not being provided with adequate nourishment [ant: nourished]

Usage examples of "malnourished".

Why so many of us might be obsessing on foetuses or malnourished children, and imagining them attacking and sexually manipulating us, is an interesting question.

Although the Reman Mekrikuk had helped to restore him somewhat from his earlier malnourished condition—thus aiding him in regaining a degree of control over his mental disciplines—Tuvok knew that his current condition was far from ideal.

Had they forced him to run alongside them, he no doubt would have tripped repeatedly, smashing into the rocky ground and likely breaking his malnourished and probably brittle bones.

They would never pay anyone to do something as fruitless as scouring the filthy streets of every overcrowded city in the world, searching among the malnourished savage children who begged and stole and starved there.

And after starving on the streets for all those years, even if he lived he was so malnourished he should have suffered serious mental damage.

If it is malnourished, or otherwise environmentally restricted during development, it may end up with a reduced brain size.

The United Nations (and the United States) churned out reams of statistics to demonstrate that there was no reason for any Iraqi to be malnourished or ill because the funds and the range of products available to Iraq should have been more than adequate to cover its needs.

Many others have been crippled, malnourished, deprived of an education, a career, a family.

Aaron had helped with that too, side by side with Ryan as he broke the news to Patrick that Alicia was malnourished and sick and must be cared for.

Alicia had been in here before, four times as a matter of fact – dehydrated, malnourished, broken ankle, suicidal – and vowed never to be brought back.

Alicia had been in here before, four times as a matter of fact-dehydrated, malnourished, broken ankle, suicidal-and vowed never to be brought back.