undernourished
1.gaunt underfed children; badly undernourished.
3.Fat is one of the great American paradoxes: films, television, and magazines all idolise undernourished fashion waifs;
4.The farmers decided to do something about the soil, which is undernourished by keeping the same sort of crops for years.
5.the soldiers are undernourished, many are ill, and the wounded in the hospitals are worse off. Such difficulties are of course unavoidable before the nation-wide seizure of political power; yet there is a pressing need to overcome them to some extent, to make life somewhat easier, and especially to secure more adequate supplies for the Red Army.
