To stunt is to slow or hinder. Some people say that drinking coffee will stunt your growth when you're a teenager they worry that you won't grow any taller.
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf;
Noun
a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
Noun
a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
Verb
perform a stunt or stunts
Verb
check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles"
v. t.
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent
the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a
plant.
n.
A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in
growth; a stunted animal or thing.
n.
Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been
weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Stunt
When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation.
Stunt
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf;
A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
Usage Examples
I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.