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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undernourished
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ undernourished children
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fifth of the world's population is undernourished.
▪ Although he did not appear to be undernourished, he was pale-faced.
▪ During that initial visit, the team found undernourished children whose slumped posture made it difficult for them to eat.
▪ In ten years time, more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished.
▪ She looked undernourished and ill-kept, like most of the population of Nicaea.
▪ The animals are so woolly, it's hard to appreciate just how undernourished they are.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undernourished

also under-nourished, 1820, from under + past participle of nourish (v.).

Wiktionary
undernourished

a. Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.

WordNet
undernourished

adj. not getting adequate food; "gaunt underfed children"; "badly undernourished" [syn: ill-fed, underfed]

Usage examples of "undernourished".

But this was not a controlled environment with monitoring hookups and attendant medics, and she was already seriously undernourished.

From that time on he saw Goi in a different light, because he saw a blubberer, persecuted by a hard life, peeping from the pale and stupid face of the undernourished Goi.

In desperation, the undernourished left the herd, searching for greener pastures, but found only .

He popped to his feet like a jumping jack, a stooped, undernourished, middle-aged man with the damnedest expression of baffled indignation on his face.

He is so undernourished that he can no longer move about, but he cannot die either, so he lies in his casket and dreams of times gone by.

For now the Wamphyri must see to the provisioning of their ravaged and undernourished aeries, whose sustenance roamed on Sunside.

While Ferris looked sturdier than Ditsy, his undernourished bones were fragile.

You, ma'am,' he pointed a finger at Mrs Flawse, 'an undernourished vulture has more patience perched upon an upas tree than you with your squat backside on that bench.