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Meanings of underfed in English

Not getting adequate food.

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Usage of underfed in English
1
We're both exhausted by our hike today and still way too underfed.
The Hunger Games
2
And the prisoners did not seem to us either overworked or underfed.
A Russian Journal
3
The birth-rate of the underfed and profoundly depressed population is about 15.
Wired
4
Who in the village had a mite that size, small and underfed?
The thirteenth tale: a novel
5
He was not underfed any more than he was underexercised or asphyxiated.
The Ball and the Cross
6
Pale, this one, and underfed, as are all those her mistress hunts.
The bone palace
7
More like a thin and underfed waif than the Maid of Myna.
Empire in black and gold
8
The Rangers were just a dirty, ill-clad, underfed squad of irregulars anyway.
Empire of the Summer Moon
9
All were in dire physical condition, not necessarily underfed, but unhealthy.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
10
The walls were decorated with crude purple crayons of underfed sirens.
The Big-Town Round-Up
11
You cannot imagine what alcohol was to an underfed poor woman.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
12
Akinleye, undersized and underfed, stared at me wildly when I came to visit.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
13
It looked underfed, but its golden eyes held a soulful light.
Celtic fire
14
She definitely wasn't underfed anymore and, in fact, felt as solid as a brick.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
15
He has been lonely and underfed, and at the first there was considerable pain.
The Love Affairs of Pixie
16
It isn't just that we've been underfed and lack training.
The Hunger Games
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