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malnourish

malnourish verb: to feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.

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.
    • But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories

Forms of malnourish

third-person singular presentmalnourishes
present participlemalnourishing
past participlemalnourished
pastmalnourished

Origin of malnourish

From mal- + nourish.

Questions about malnourish

What does malnourish mean?
Malnourish means to feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
What part of speech is malnourish?
Malnourish is a verb.
What is the past tense of malnourish?
The past tense of malnourish is malnourished.

Words near malnourish in the dictionary

  1. Malnad
  2. Malnar
  3. Malnars
  4. malnormal
  5. malnormality
  6. malnourish
  7. malnourished
  8. malnourishes
  9. malnourishing
  10. malnourishment
  11. malnutrite

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