nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
unnourished
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a word derived from
nourish.
Example Sentences
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While the movie may not have the insight of D. A. Pennebaker’s “Don’t Look Back” or even Phil Joanou’s U2 travelogue, “Rattle and Hum,” Pearl Jam devotees will not go home musically unnourished.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011
Mr. Whishaw, who played Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 movie of “Brideshead Revisited,” has the unnourished body of a London youth reared on wartime rations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2011
Jewdwine in the early days of Metropolis wore the hungry look of a man who, having swallowed all his formulas, finds himself unnourished.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
And the forest once gone, land and water shrivel, unnourished, leaving a desert amid charred stumps and the white phantoms of dead pines.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
An unnourished human body responds but weakly, so, vitiated by their fast and labours, their suffering smote them with tenfold cruelty.
From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach
