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UNDERNOURISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undernourish mean?
• UNDERNOURISH (verb)
The verb UNDERNOURISH has 1 sense:
1. provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
Familiarity information: UNDERNOURISH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they undernourish ... he / she / it undernourishes
Past simple: undernourished
Past participle: undernourished
-ing form: undernourishing
... he / she / it undernourishes Past simple: undernourished
Past participle: undernourished
-ing form: undernourishing
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 "undernourish" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
undernourishment (not having enough food to develop or function normally)
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