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
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.
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