Meaning

1 senses

  1. To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.

More definitions
  • provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment

Origin

From mal- + nourish.

From mal- + nourish.

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Forms

malnourishes, malnourishing, malnourished, malnourished
Base formmalnourish · to malnourish
3rd person singularmalnourishes
Present participlemalnourishing
Past simplemalnourished
Past participlemalnourished

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymalnourish
he, she, itmalnourishes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmalnourished

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave malnourished
he, she, ithas malnourished

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill malnourish

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment:undernourish

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmalnourishment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
malleableC2malletmalmmalnourishedmalnutritionmalpracticemalt
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