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malnourished

[mal-nur-isht, -nuhr-] / mælˈnɜr ɪʃt, -ˈnʌr- /




ADJECTIVE
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"About 1.3 million children are moderately malnourished, 700,000 suffer from acute malnutrition and 900,000 mothers are moderately to severely malnourished," ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

That’s when so much critical development takes place, and children who are malnourished can never make up the loss.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

The boy was fifteen, skinny, almost malnourished, so that the hip bones and coccyx stood out sharply.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The cubs, which were found malnourished earlier this year, were trapped by the UC Davis California Carnivores Program and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to the San Diego Humane Society.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

I was still too frail and too malnourished to have gone through puberty.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson