Usually means: Inadequate nutrition causing health decline.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word malnourishment:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. malnourishment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. malnourishment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. malnourishment: Vocabulary.com
  4. Malnourishment, malnourishment: Wordnik
  5. malnourishment: Wiktionary
  6. malnourishment: Dictionary.com
  7. Malnourishment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. malnourishment: Rhymezone
  9. malnourishment: FreeDictionary.org
  10. malnourishment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. malnourishment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. malnourishment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. malnourishment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. malnourishment: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  malnutrition, undernourishment

Similar:
undernourishment, malnutrition, subnutrition, hyponutrition, undernutrition, misnutrition, hypoalimentation, marasmus, overnutrition, trophesy, more...

Opposite:
nutrition, nourishment, well-fed

Adjectives:
severe, chronic, widespread, maternal, fetal, general, such, serious, emotional, early, spiritual

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Similar:
undernourishment, malnutrition, subnutrition, hyponutrition, undernutrition, misnutrition, hypoalimentation, marasmus, overnutrition, trophesy, more...

Opposite:
nutrition, nourishment, well-fed

Adjectives:
severe, chronic, widespread, maternal, fetal, general, such, serious, emotional, early, spiritual



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