undernourishment

/ˌʌndəˈnʌrɪʃm(ə)nt/

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American sound/ˌʌndəˈnʌrɪʃm(ə)nt/

ˌʌndəˈnʌrɪʃmənt

Syllables: 5 syllables
Stress: 3rd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ˌʌndə - ˈnʌrɪʃmənt -> undernourishment

Myanmar meaning

အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ခြင်း။

Full entry

undernourished / ʌndǝ'nʌrÇʃt / adj

အာဟာရချို့တဲ့သော။ The children grow up severely undernourished. Compare MALNOURISHED
❏ undernourishment /-'nʌrÇʃmǝnt / n [U] အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ခြင်း။

More examples

‘Some people, he says, are eating too much meat, oil and fat, and parents and grandparents are feeding their children excessively to make up for being undernourished themselves.’
‘Chronically undernourished children are far more likely to succumb to disease compared to those children who are of adequate nutrition.’
‘Nevertheless, a soldier must eat a reasonably balanced diet in order to avoid fatigue, and the diseases which can run rampant through the camps of undernourished troops.’
‘As well as being emotionally undernourished, the children also did not have adequate facilities.’
‘She was undernourished and she had never seen by a health visitor or a doctor.’
‘This appeared in the national press, which reported that millions of households were undernourished because they did not have the opportunity to make healthy food choices.’
‘Thin, small built and looking undernourished, ‘PK’ was ahead of me in Maths but I outscored him in other subjects.’
‘The report says one quarter of the region's population are undernourished.’
‘They hadn't eaten properly and were undernourished.’
‘The students are all undernourished and underweight.’
‘He said that low birth weight babies delivered by undernourished mothers are also at a risk of becoming obese later on.’
‘She certainly didn't appear undernourished but, yes, I did feel immensely sorry for her.’
‘Although no one ever starved here, many were undernourished.’
‘She has been a prisoner for years on end, unloved and constantly undernourished in the midst of appalling squalor.’
‘The child grew to become a vibrant but undernourished teenager, who was very popular in his neighbourhood.’
‘You may have to take nutrients or eat foods containing certain vitamins so that you do not become undernourished or underweight.’
‘All the prisoners are overworked and undernourished.’
‘One in eight patients admitted to the region's hospitals is undernourished and their condition is ignored by doctors and nurses, according to new research.’
‘I hadn't eaten for three days, and was heavily undernourished.’
‘Her mother Anna was undernourished and food was scarce in Czechoslovakia.’

Synonyms

underfed, malnourished, starving, hungry, thin, weak, starved, famished, skinny, all skin and bones, angular, anorectic, anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, could eat a horse, craving, dehydrated, delicate, deprived, dog-hungry, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, ethereal, faint, featherweight, fine, fleshless, flying light, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, have munchies, hungering, lank, lanky, lean, light, lightweight, like a rail, macerated, meager, narrow, peaked, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rattleboned, ravenous, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, skin-and-bone, skin-and-bones, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, stick, stilt, stringbean, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undersized, underweight, unhealthily thin, very thin, wan, wasted, weakened, weedy, withered, wizened

Antonyms

big, broad-minded, chubby, colorful, concentrated, dense, efficient, fat, fed, flushed, full, generous, healthy, heavy, inflated, large, liberal, obese, overweight, plump, sated, satiated, satisfied, solid, strong, thick, undiluted, well fed, well-fed, wide

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