UNDERNOURISHMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having enough food to develop or function normally

Synonyms:

malnourishment; undernourishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("undernourishment" is a kind of...):

hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)

Derivation:

undernourish (provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment)

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