单词 | underfeed |
释义 | ▪ I. ˈunderfeed, a. [Cf. next, 2.] Of furnaces: Fed with fuel from below. (In recent use.) ▪ II. ˌunderˈfeed, v. [under-1 10 a, 4 a.] 1. trans. To feed insufficiently; to stint in food.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iii. xxviii. 363 The Fanaticks strive to underfeed and starve it to a despicable feeblenesse. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digest. ix. (1845) 75 Underfeeding and great mortality of the poor. 1861Goldw. Smith Inaugural Lect. 32 The folly of overworking and underfeeding the labourer. 2. To feed with fuel from below.
1904Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Dec. 439 He was convinced that the fundamental principle of underfeeding was a success. |

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