Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
nutrition .
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Examples
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And when once on the downward slope, chronic innutrition is an important factor in sapping vitality and hastening the descent.
THOSE ON THE EDGE 2010
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And when once on the downward slope, chronic innutrition is an important factor in sapping vitality and hastening the descent.
Those on the Edge 1903
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Ill-fed, suffering from innutrition and the evil effects of overcrowding and squalor, their constitutions develop a morbid craving for the drink, just as the sickly stomach of the overstrung Manchester factory operative hankers after excessive quantities of pickles and similar weird foods.
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Living like swine, enfeebled by chronic innutrition, being sapped mentally, morally, and physically, what chance have they to crawl up and out of the Abyss into which they were born falling?
THOSE ON THE EDGE 2010
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"The living in their houses, and in their graves the dead," are challenged by every babe that dies of innutrition, by every girl that flees the sweater's den to the nightly promenade of Piccadilly, by every worked-out toiler that plunges into the canal.
THE MANAGEMENT 2010
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The count - less men of the past, even from before the time they swung down out of the trees, who devoted more time and energy to their love-affairs than to the winning of food and shelter, died from innutrition in various ways.
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And it is especially simple when it is taken into consideration that his body is ravaged by innutrition and disease, in addition to his soul being torn by the sight of his suffering wife and little ones.
SUICIDE 2010
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Following this law consistently, our course is clear and simple: in cases of innutrition we seek to increase the nutritive faculty by means of proper food; for the overworked we prescribe rest, for those who need exercise, work; warmth for the cold and cooling for the feverish.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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A horse with a badly deformed scissor-mouth is unable to grind the feed, and unless given special care, suffers severely from innutrition.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Lack of exercise, or confinement, innutrition, and a depraved sense of taste may favor the development of this disease.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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