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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 nourishmentplay

  Familiarity information: MALNOURISH used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MALNOURISH (verb)


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...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

malnourishment (not having enough food to develop or function normally)


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