malnourish

Etymology

mal- + nourish

verb

  1. (transitive) To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
    But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world. 2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories

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