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Answer for the clue "Not having enough food to develop or function formally ", 14 letters:
malnourishment

Word definitions for malnourishment in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. malnutrition, undernourishment

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1899, see mal- + nourishment .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. not having enough food to develop or function formally [syn: undernourishment ]

Usage examples of malnourishment.

Other than malnourishment, a slight case of the flu, and a body ravaged by drugs, there was nothing else remarkable, according to the doctor.

Only the elitebureaucrats, military, higher echelons of police and overlapping internal intelligence departments, valued people sequestered away in certain government research projects such as Gamebird, or a very few otherswere allowed to lead lives of anything save endless drudgery, malnourishment if not outright starvation, hopelessness, and unceasing terror.