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adjective
- 1. insufficiently fed or nourished: "a horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic"
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adjective. uk / ˌʌn.dəˈfed / us / ˌʌn.dɚˈfed / Add to word list. not having had enough food to eat: Weak, underfed patients risk undoing the good medical work carried out on their behalf. A lot of the elephants are underfed and overworked, and become very thin. See also. malnourished. Fewer examples.
(ˌʌndəˈfɛd ) adjective. having been given too little food. Kate still looks pale and underfed. ill-trained and underfed young soldiers. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'underfed' in a sentence. underfed.
When someone is underfed, they don't get enough to eat. It's worse to give your fish too much food than for her to be underfed, but it's still unkind to let her go hungry. If you're underfed, you don't eat as much food as you need to stay healthy.
Definition of underfed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define underfed. underfed synonyms, underfed pronunciation, underfed translation, English dictionary definition of underfed. tr.v. un·der·fed , un·der·feed·ing , un·der·feeds 1. To feed insufficiently. 2. To supply with fuel from the underside. American Heritage® Dictionary of the...
verb [ T ] uk / ˌʌn.dəˈfiːd / us / ˌʌn.dɚˈfiːd / Add to word list Add to word list. to not give enough food to a person or animal: We are called in to help when parents neglect and underfeed their children. The plants in the aquarium seem to be disappearing—am I underfeeding my fish? Fewer examples.
Synonyms for UNDERFED: malnourished, undernourished, starving, hungry, starved, famished, peckish, empty; Antonyms of UNDERFED: satisfied, content, stuffed, full, overfed, glutted, satiated, sated.
underfed meaning, definition, what is underfed: not given enough food to eat: Learn more.
underfed ˌən-dər-ˈfed ; underfeeding. Synonyms of underfeed. transitive verb. : to feed with too little food. Examples of underfeed in a Sentence.
adjective. Inadequately fed. Wiktionary. Synonyms: undernourished. ill-fed. verb. Simple past tense and past participle of underfeed. Wiktionary. Advertisement. Underfed Sentence Examples. The Russian army is full of underfed teenage conscripts.
