unfed
IPA: ʌnfɛd
noun
- (biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
adjective
- Not fed.
- (figurative) Unsupported.
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Examples of "unfed" in Sentences
- Tobin, filthy, falls asleep at his desk, unwashed and unfed for days.
- Still the men went unfed, unpaid, and short of ammunition and tools.10
- I hope that no man has to toil for bread, no child sleeps unfed and no woman is coerced in bed.
- At last we were permitted to enter the feasting hall, where we found the "ticket men" washed but unfed.
- Homeless children may be needy emotionally and due to lack of access to bathtubs or showers and little food, they may be unclean and unfed.
- Keeping an eye out for unfed, ill or poorly clothed children, teachers consult Masitla, who then goes home with the child to discuss the issues with the family.
- In their unfed condition, and often too ill to work - in the opinion of the Senior Medical Officer of the POWs, the trials of this tunnel alone brought extreme suffering to the men.
- “They want to maintain an attitude,” she charged, “that keeps women unhealthy, unfed, uneducated, and this is something that results all too often in violence against these young women.”
- Now, the recipe calls for the starter to be "unfed" but I think if you are like me and you have a dormant starter i.e. a starter that hasn't been baked with in a while You will want to feed it at least once before using it just to wake it up.
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