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malnourishing

malnourishing is the present participle and gerund of malnourish.

Meaning of malnourish

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

Questions about malnourishing

What is malnourishing the present participle and gerund of?
Malnourishing is the present participle and gerund of malnourish.

Words near malnourishing in the dictionary

  1. malnormal
  2. malnormality
  3. malnourish
  4. malnourished
  5. malnourishes
  6. malnourishing
  7. malnourishment
  8. malnutrite
  9. malnutrition
  10. malnutritional
  11. malnutritioned

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