as in haggard
not getting enough food or not getting enough healthy food for good health and growth
undernourished children
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Recent Examples of undernourished
Smith said the skin can undergo further harm, as many are often undernourished thanks to the decrease in appetite from the drugs.
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Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Cosmo is largely wasted in a rote cranky-but-loyal part that adds little to the undernourished whole.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
At The Marine Mammal Center, undernourished, sick or injured elephant seal pups usually start trickling in during February, after beachgoers call the center’s hotline and specialists are dispatched to rescue them.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
The 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition report estimated that by the end of this decade, 582 million people will be chronically undernourished, with more than half of them in Africa.
—Gil Press, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Cosmo is largely wasted in a rote cranky-but-loyal part that adds little to the undernourished whole.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
At The Marine Mammal Center, undernourished, sick or injured elephant seal pups usually start trickling in during February, after beachgoers call the center’s hotline and specialists are dispatched to rescue them.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
The 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition report estimated that by the end of this decade, 582 million people will be chronically undernourished, with more than half of them in Africa.
—Gil Press, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undernourished
Adjective
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When Claire first shows up, Sweeney’s haggard appearance is doubly shocking for anyone who’s seen how radiant the star looks in most roles.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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Weinstein often looked haggard and out of it — unshaven, mouth ajar, eyes bleary.—
Phoebe Eaton,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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New Jersey police have arrested a woman accused of placing a malnourished and injured dog in a trash bag and leaving it in a dumpster outside her apartment complex in Lindenwold.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
20 May 2025
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She had been critically injured in an animal attack and was seriously malnourished at the time of her rescue.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Though no longer lofty, at close range these mountains are still impressive and assertive, rising in sheer cliffs hundreds of feet high above the beating surf, bare rock capped by a thin layer of soil and long grassy turf, spilling dozens of small cascades over and down narrow ravines into the sea.—
Robert Finch
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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Still, scientists have long struggled to account for where all of it is located since a large chunk of ordinary matter is spread so thin among galaxies and the vast spaces between them.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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“Undernourished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undernourished. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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