malnourished
Example Sentences
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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
"Our goal is to reach all patients... and help all malnourished women and children," Zaman said.
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
In June 2012, the United Nations estimated that up to two-thirds of the population was malnourished.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
