say it: uhn-dur-NUR-ish
undernourish is a verb meaning "provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment". It is pronounced /ˌʌndɚˈnɝɪʃ/ — uhn-dur-NUR-ish. It carries one recorded sense.
provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
“The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for undernourish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.