undernourish
uhn der nu rish
- v provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished
- The board of late has been trying gradually to reduce the rate of growth in money supply in order to "undernourish" inflation, as Burns once put it.
- And as for my hatred of those teachers who overinstruct but undernourish, yelling "digression!" in Oral Expression every time a student gets interesting, the romantic critiques .