as in starving
not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food; poorly nourished
The malnourished children were slowly nursed back to health.
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Recent Examples of malnourished
The hospitals that remain open have been overwhelmed by the dead, wounded and now by increasing numbers of malnourished as parts of Gaza are experiencing famine.
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Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2025
Among those who have sought shelter within the walls of the compounds, many are weakened and malnourished due to the hardships of the last months.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
But there would be no mechanism for dealing with severely malnourished children who need specialized hospital care.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
Some of the most malnourished children are in the few hospitals still operating in Gaza, where doctors are scrambling for supplies of special therapeutic milks.
—Dawoud Abu Alkas, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2025
Among those who have sought shelter within the walls of the compounds, many are weakened and malnourished due to the hardships of the last months.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
But there would be no mechanism for dealing with severely malnourished children who need specialized hospital care.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
Some of the most malnourished children are in the few hospitals still operating in Gaza, where doctors are scrambling for supplies of special therapeutic milks.
—Dawoud Abu Alkas, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malnourished
Adjective
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Factors like immune health and body fat play a role; if someone is already undernourished, their health will deteriorate quickly, after a few days without food.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
31 July 2025
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Sticking with the example of hunger, the UN’s target number 2 out of 17, the inception of the Sustainable Development Goals came at a time when progress on the topic was good and only 552 million people in the world were estimated to be undernourished in 2014, down from 789 million in 2005.—
Katharina Buchholz,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Its free lunch program for the homeless and hungry draws more than 200 people in a week, and a free drop-in mental health clinic operates from offices on-site.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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But until now, such light sources required large, power-hungry tabletop systems.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Malnourished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malnourished. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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