Word Meanings - UNDERFEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

Related words: (words related to UNDERFEED)

• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• INSUFFICIENT
  1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill;
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• DISQUANTITY
  To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.
• OVERSUPPLY
  To supply in excess.
• WATER SUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.