malnourishment
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4.8
- noun
- /mælˈnʌrɪʃmənt/
:
desnutrición
- In many developing countries, malnourishment is a significant barrier to children's growth and education.
- suffer from malnourishment
And you couple that with malnourishment and other things that are bound to have a huge impact.
- And you couple that with malnourishment and other things that are bound to have a huge impact.
Examples
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Centuries of sickness and malnourishment have left most of them disease-ridden and stunted.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mother blames it all on malnourishment and vitamin deficiency.
Fiction book (1996) -
No signs of malnourishment or serious exposure.
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In many countries in southern Africa, rates of malnourishment affect more than 50 percent of the population.
Academic text (2005) -
Our children are suffering intellectual malnourishment.
Academic text (1992) -
The overriding issue was to protect us from malnourishment and serious danger.
Academic text (2006) -
Afghanistan has a 40-50% unemployment level with a rate of malnourishment of 35%.
Blog text (2) -
But even in the vastly richer U.S., 20 million people suffer from malnourishment.
Academic text (1992) -
The FAO further estimates that there has been a 72% rise in childhood malnourishment, affecting 32 percent of children under five.
Academic text (2001) -
Seventeen million children under five die each year, and malnourishment contributes to at least one-third of these children's deaths.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
83
4.7
A very strong hunger that happens when someone has no food for a long time
29
5.1
A health problem when the body does not get or use the right food
1
6.0
A lack of enough food and the nutrients a body needs for good health
1
5.7
A lack of enough food to grow or be healthy
A state of having less food than the body needs but not completely without food
Antonyms
How Nourished
Surface Forms
Morphology
malnourishment = malnourish (transparent) = mal + nourish + ment
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ment' to the clear verb 'malnourish', yielding the noun for the condition or result.
Etymology
The word malnourishment comes from the parts mal- meaning 'bad' and nourish meaning 'to feed'. So malnourishment literally means 'bad feeding', which explains why it describes not having enough good food or nutrients to be healthy.