malnourished

Preposition: as

• child: Children in Gaza, according to UNICEF figures, are now as seriously malnourished as children in Congo and Zimbabwe.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: All these factors have undermined food crop yields, leaving the local communities malnourished.

Modifies a noun

• child: How do you feed 8,000 malnourished children in a matter of weeks?
• patient: Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: " Malnourished patients are often discharged from hospital into care homes.
• baby: A malnourished baby just brought in is fed by its mother.
• people: The scandal of malnourished older people in hospital Four out of 10 older people admitted to hospital are malnourished on arrival.
• subject: The malnourished subjects scored worse in some domains of the quality of life questionnaires.
• mother: Data collected during the Dutch famine suggest that a malnourished mother protects her own body stores of nutrients at the expense of the fetus.

Modifying Another Word

• chronically: More than 800 million of us are chronically malnourished.
• moderately: Medical staff reported that all children coming to the health center were at least moderately malnourished.
• severely: Normal doses in the severely malnourished may lead to toxicity.
• seriously: A third of all children under the age of five are seriously malnourished.
• already: And already malnourished people could be deprived of food if charities cannot get in to ensure the distribution of vital supplies.
• very: Of these, 45 children were very malnourished, five of which died leaving 40 children who were nursed back to health.

Used with adjective complement

• become: They will be left to fend for themselves: many are likely to become malnourished for lack of cash to buy food.
• look: Is it fair to starve us to death and then complain that your pound of flesh looks malnourished?
• get: He, therefore, tries to save on food and gets malnourished.