malnourish

English

Etymology

mal- +‎ nourish

Verb

malnourish (third-person singular simple present malnourishes, present participle malnourishing, simple past and past participle malnourished)

  1. (transitive) To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
    • 2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories‎:
      But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.
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