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dwarf
- any human being, animal, or plant that is much smaller than the usual one of its species
- Folklore a little being in human form, usually ugly or malformed, to whom magic powers are attributed
- a star of relatively small size or mass and low luminosity
transitive verb
- to keep from growing to full natural size
- to make small or insignificant
- to make seem small by comparison
intransitive verb
to become stunted or dwarfed
adjective
undersized; stunted
Related Forms:
- dwarfish adjective
- dwarfishness noun
- dwarfism noun
See dwarf in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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