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Etymology

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From mal- +‎ nourish.

Verb

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malnourish (third-person singular simple present malnourishes, present participle malnourishing, simple past and past participle malnourished)

  1. (transitive) To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
    • 2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories[1]:
      But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.
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