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Definition of "underfed" []

  • Inadequately fed. (adjective)
  • Simple past tense and past participle of underfeed. (verb)

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Use "underfed" in a sentence
  • "In every great aggregation of workers, the faces of the underfed are a little paler and the pulses of the children beat a little less joyously, and the feet are hastened on that journey to the tomb -- all because of those who come to steal and to kill and to destroy."
  • "[The only photo accompanying this article is one of Sheriff Bartlett, and he sure doesn't look 'underfed' to me … but that extra"
  • "This week's victim is Casey, who makes the sacrificial decision to work the front of a very unruly house of underfed patrons and leaves her risky chicken-foot experiment in others' hands."
Words like "underfed"
anemic
gray-faced
half-fed
half-starved
large-eyed
malnourished
over-crowded
over-weighted