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- verb Present participle of
underfeed .
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Examples
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Nevertheless, he earned two dollars a week, and two dollars represented the difference between acute starvation and chronic underfeeding.
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Nor will the fecund millions in the slums and labour-ghettos, who to-day die of all the ills due to chronic underfeeding and overcrowding, and who die with their fecundity largely unrealised, die in that future day when the increased food-getting efficiency of socialism will give them all they want to eat.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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And as their minds are made rotten, so are their bodies made rotten by bad sanitation, overcrowding, and underfeeding.
THE CHILDREN 2010
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Nevertheless, he earned two dollars a week, and two dollars represented the difference between acute starvation and chronic underfeeding.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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This phenomenon is called adaptive thermogenesis, which is defined as increase or decrease in energy expenditure in response to overfeeding or underfeeding or even temperature change.
Metabolic efficiency | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My problem is, the other night, there was something mentioned about underfeeding that baby to keep it sexy.
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It ` s this affidavit from Anna Nicole ` s former nanny saying that Anna was underfeeding Danielynn to make her - quote - "more sexy."
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We hear of daily substance abuse, wild affairs, no bonding with the child, underfeeding child, a wild and unpredictable environment.
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Translation: what was really tested was how underfeeding your dog could extend his life.
Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Purina Dog Chow: Adds Up to 2 Years to Your Dog’s Life* 2007
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What was that statement regarding underfeeding the child?
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