malnourish

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ nourish.

Verb

malnourish (third-person singular simple present malnourishes, present participle malnourishing, simple past and past participle malnourished)

1. (transitive) To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
   • 2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories‎:

     But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.