Definition of "undernourishment" [undernourishment]

• Insufficient nourishment (noun)
• The condition of being undernourished (noun)

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• "The Rome conference on Tuesday is sponsored by the U. N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, which said higher food prices may trigger widespread "undernourishment" during the next decade."
• "The French had been let out of the camps and, after internment, deprivation, fear and undernourishment, were not normal, any more than the Dutch."
• "There is no single solution to the global problems of undernourishment, unbalanced nutritional styles and environmental degradation, but there is one way to approach the issue as a whole: we must realign the way we eat to minimize our impact on the planet."