underfeed

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér

Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí

Proto-Indo-European *-ér

Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér

Proto-Germanic *under

Proto-West Germanic *undar

Old English under-

Middle English under-

English under-

English feed

English underfeed

From under- + feed.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

underfeed (third-person singular simple present underfeeds, present participle underfeeding, simple past and past participle underfed)

1. (transitive) To feed inadequately or insufficiently.
2. To feed material (e.g. fuel into a burner) from below.

Translations

to feed insufficiently

• Bulgarian: недохранвам (nedohranvam)
• French: sous-alimenter (fr)
• German: unterernähren; (baby, animal, etc.) unterfüttern (de)
• Hungarian: alultáplál (hu)
• Polish: głodzić (pl) impf, zagładzać impf, zagłodzić (pl) pf
• Swedish: undernära