Definition of "underfeeding" [underfeeding]

• Present participle of underfeed. (verb)

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• "And as their minds are made rotten, so are their bodies made rotten by bad sanitation, overcrowding, and underfeeding."
• "Nor will the fecund millions in the slums and labour-ghettos, who to-day die of all the ills due to chronic underfeeding and overcrowding, and who die with their fecundity largely unrealised, die in that future day when the increased food-getting efficiency of socialism will give them all they want to eat."
• "Nevertheless, he earned two dollars a week, and two dollars represented the difference between acute starvation and chronic underfeeding."