underfeed

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ feed.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

underfeed (third-person singular simple present underfeeds, present participle underfeeding, simple past and past participle underfed)

1. (transitive) To feed inadequately or insufficiently.
2. To feed material (e.g. fuel into a burner) from below.

Translations

to feed insufficiently

Bulgarian: недохранвам (nedohranvam) French: sous-alimenter (fr) German: unterernähren; (baby, animal, etc.) unterfüttern (de) Hungarian: alultáplál (hu) Polish: głodzić (pl) impf, zagładzać impf, zagłodzić (pl) pf Swedish: undernära