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malnourished

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1. malnourished - Adjective

2. malnourished - Verb

Meaning

not being provided with adequate nourishment

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1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies. Jean Ziegler

Consumer Christianity, while promising to strengthen our souls with an entertaining faith, has left us malnourished with an anemic view of God, faith, church, and mission. Skye Jethani

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished. Liya Kebede

7.8 million malnourished children received special nutritional support in 2013, and 18.6 million children received school meals or take-home rations. Source: Internet

A pet rescue organization in the South performed surgery to put his spine back in his body and remove his tail, but the malnourished pup still needed a caregiver. Source: Internet

Approximately 250,000 to 500,000 malnourished children in the developing world go blind each year from a deficiency of vitamin A. Night blindness is one of the first signs of vitamin A deficiency. Source: Internet

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