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Undernourished   /ˌəndərnˈərɪʃt/   Listen
Undernourished

adjective
1.
Not getting adequate food.  Synonyms: ill-fed, underfed.  "Badly undernourished"






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"Undernourished" Quotes from Famous Books



... wheedling, coaxing music, more hovering head-waiters, dancing.... The boarding-house keeper told herself, comfortably, that it would never do for her, and pushed a tolerant curiosity back into the ragbag of her mind, and the Settlement worker tucked in her lips and reminded herself that there would be undernourished children, hungry children, not a mile from where Miss Vail would be eating out-of-season delicacies, and thanked her God that she ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... nervous system is undernourished, it becomes disorganized and undeveloped. This is apt to be expressed in uncertain emotional states, quick tempers, and a predisposition to convulsions. The heart, if undernourished, lays its foundation for future heart disease, and the whole system ...
— Diet and Health - With Key to the Calories • Lulu Hunt Peters



Words linked to "Undernourished" :   malnourished, ill-fed, underfed



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