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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



... mother? Why, our physical nature itself is less selfish! When a woman conceives, her child receives first all the nourishment it needs; whatever it does not demand, the mother has. A woman herself undernourished can, if the process has not gone too far, bear a well-nourished and a healthy child, because she has given all to that child. It is the epitome of motherhood! And now it is affirmed that a woman, to satisfy her own need, has a right to bring into the world a child on whom she—its mother—has deliberately ...
— Sex And Common-Sense • A. Maude Royden



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



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