Definition of "undernourish" []

• To provide with insufficient quantity or quality of nourishment to sustain proper health and growth. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as “bodies” to be used."
• "Without protest, and without notice until too late, teachers often neglect their own health at home and at school, -- recklessly overwork, undersleep, and undernourish; ruin their eyes, their digestion, and their nerves."
• "So two months before the age of two the mother begins to undernourish the child so that it stays on the list of those that receive food complements. '"