to malnourish
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6.8
- verb
- /mælˈnɜrɪʃ/
:
malnutrir
- Many families struggle to provide enough food, leaving their children malnourished and at risk of health issues.
- malnourished children
- malnourished people
- severely malnourished
Examples
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There are hundreds of millions of people who are starving or malnourished.
Academic text (1993) -
Does it matter to the industrialized countries that many people in developing countries are malnourished?
Academic text (2001) -
Over five hundred million people, including one third of all children, are malnourished.
Academic text (2003) -
Second, the previously malnourished children were not growing at rates above those expected for their age or height.
Academic text (1992) -
As a result, the number of malnourished people increases in 11 of the scenarios examined.
Academic text (1997) -
The point is that we will all benefit if nobody starves and if nobody is malnourished.
Academic text (2005) -
Many babies are born prematurely and underweight to malnourished mothers.
Academic text (1996) -
Over 850 million people worldwide are estimated to be chronically hungry and malnourished.
Academic text (2008) -
There he is, tiny, neglected, malnourished Napoleon, in a room in some hovel in Brownsville.
Fiction book (2001) -
While appearing to be in good physical health, though slightly malnourished, Mrs. Randall was disoriented and incoherent.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
3
6.3
To give a person or animal not enough food to be healthy
1
8.5
To make someone or something very weak by not giving food
To give too little food to a person, animal, or plant
Antonyms
How Nourished
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3.5
49
3.2
870
1.0
16
6.8
134
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word malnourish comes from the part mal- meaning 'bad' and the word nourish meaning 'to feed'. So it literally means to 'feed badly' or not give enough good food, which is why to malnourish someone is to cause poor health or slow growth.