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UNDERNOURISHMENT
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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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