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malnourished

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




ADJECTIVE
undersized
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"I became very malnourished and I got anaemia - Peter said I aged 20 years when I next saw him," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

"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

She imagines her granddaughter pale, gliding through paleness, malnourished and cold without the food of scarlets and greens.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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