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MALNOURISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does malnourish mean?
• MALNOURISH (verb)
The verb MALNOURISH has 1 sense:
1. provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
Familiarity information: MALNOURISH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
malnourish; undernourish
Context example:
The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished
Hypernyms (to "malnourish" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
malnourishment (not having enough food to develop or function normally)
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