Meanings
verbmalnourish (third-person singular simple present malnourishes, present participle malnourishing, simple past and past participle malnourished)
present singular third person malnourishes · participle present malnourishing · participle past malnourished · past malnourished
- transitiveTo feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.
2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories
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malnourish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malnourish
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“malnourish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malnourish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “malnourish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malnourish.
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