dwarfed

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stunted

adjective. kept from growing

Word Origin & History

Old English dweorh, dweorg (West Saxon), duerg (Mercian), "very short human being," from Proto-Germanic *dweraz (cf. Old Frisian dwerch, Old Saxon dwerg, Old High German twerg, German Zwerg, Old Norse dvergr), perhaps from PIE *dhwergwhos "something tiny," but with no established cognates outside Germanic. The mythological sense is 1770, from German (it seems never to have developed independently in English).

The shift of the Old English guttural at the end of the word to modern -f is typical (cf. enough, draft). Old English plural dweorgas became Middle English dwarrows, later leveled down to dwarfs. The use of dwarves for the legendary race was popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien. As an adjective, from 1590s.

Example Sentences fordwarfed

We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases.

But how the form of such a woman must be dwarfed in the camera of such a man's mind!

Our workmen and soldiers are large in physique, but dwarfed of intellect.

But since then achievements in steam have dwarfed even the great work of Corliss.

Captain Whalley was not dwarfed by the solitude of the grandly planned street.

He was dwarfed by his daughters, by the furniture, by any caller of ordinary stature.

I once imagined this dwarfed and stinted scrub to be a wood.

Yet the whole, as it stands, is utterly marred by the Virgin's dwarfed limbs.

Humanity has progressed in spite of the fear that has dwarfed our stature.

I am sure my 'true woman' will never be crushed or dwarfed by them.

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