undernourish

Verb

Meaning

provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment

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Synonyms

malnourish eat sparingly starve oneself eat too little consume insufficiently deprive oneself of food have a limited diet have a meager diet have a minimal diet have a restricted diet have an insufficient diet ingest inadequately not eat enough nourish inadequately scrimp on food
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Antonyms

fatten overfeed overfed coarsen gain weight put on weight
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Hypernyms

give feed

Examples

The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

undernote undernoted undernotification undernourished undernourishment undernurse