dwarf

[Dwarf]

An unusually short, small person is sometimes called a dwarf. There are many different genetic medical conditions that can cause a person to be classified as a little person or a dwarf.

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An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

Noun
a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

Noun
a person who is abnormally small

Verb
check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"

Verb
make appear small by comparison; "This year''s debt dwarves that of last year"

n.
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

v. t.
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

v. i.
To become small; to diminish in size.

Dwarf

Dwarf , n.; pl Dwarfs . [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.] An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. &hand; During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort. -- Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt.

Dwarf

Dwarf, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dwarfed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Addison.

Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.

Dwarf

Dwarf, v. i. To become small; to diminish in size.

Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

To become small; to diminish in size.

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