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dwarf

UK /dwɔːf/US /dwɔɹf/

verb 5
noun 4
adjective 1
forms 7

verb5

To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
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To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
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To make appear insignificant.
- Bach dwarfs all other composers.
To become (much) smaller.
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To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk - into a race of beauties that seems almost another species — 1710

noun4

An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
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(offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
- The nurse exclaimed it when I finally arrived, a month late (a habit I have kept). That's how my parents found out that I was a little person, a dwarf, of short stature. — 2014
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Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- [T]he elf king and his queen made a royal progress every noon with a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites, […] — 1973
A dwarf star.

adjective1

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Miniature.
- The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.
- It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.

forms

dwarfed · dwarfing · dwarfeth · dwarfs · dwarves · dwarfer · dwarfest

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