stunt
/stʌnt/ verb C2- To check or hinder the growth or development of. · Some have said smoking stunts your growth.· The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
He/she/it stunts · Past stunted · Past participle stunted · -ing form stunting
Verb forms
- Base form
- stunt
- He/she/it
- stunts
- Past
- stunted
- Past participle
- stunted
- -ing form
- stunting
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A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.
Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.
An orchard surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual upon the moor, were stunted and nipped, and the effect of the whole place was mean and melancholy.
I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard.
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