Similar words: nourishment, malnourishment, impoverishment, punishment, blandishment, admonishment, astonishment, accomplishment. Meaning: n. not having enough food to develop or function formally.
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1 His health collapsed from undernourishment.
2 What with overwork and ( what with ) undernourishment , she fell ill.
3 What with overwork and what with undernourishment his brother became very ill.
4 Few of them starved to death: diseases take a deadlier toll of weakened bodies than undernourishment.
5 The workers' ignorance compounds their poverty: everywhere, failure to follow the most elementary rules of diet makes undernourishment worse.
6 The collapse of his health is brougt on by undernourishment.
7 Forty per cent of children under five in developing countries are short for their age because of undernourishment.
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