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underfed

/uhn-der-feed for 1; uhn-der-feed for 2/US // ˌʌn dərˈfid for 1; ˈʌn dɛrˌfid for 2 //

吃不饱,吃不饱的,营养不足,吃不饱饭

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    un·der·fed, un·der·feed·ing.

    • : to feed insufficiently.
    • : to feed with fuel from beneath.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The animal was so underfed that his ribs were showing under his lusterless chestnut coat.

  • An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.

  • In North Germany, at Ilmenau, we were constantly pained by meeting peasants who looked underfed and miserable.

  • "Nature has no heart," said he, very bitterly and readily, as people do who are over-philosophised and underfed.

  • The pecuniary struggle produces an underfed class, of large proportions.

  • They had been underfed, under-clothed, singled out for all the disagreeable work and all the abuse—because they were English.