dwarf
/dwɔɹf/ verb C2- To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than. · The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
- To make appear insignificant. · Bach dwarfs all other composers.
- To become (much) smaller.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
He/she/it dwarfs · Past dwarfed · Past participle dwarfed · -ing form dwarfing
Verb forms
- Base form
- dwarf
- He/she/it
- dwarfs
- Past
- dwarfed
- Past participle
- dwarfed
- -ing form
- dwarfing
From the library
In front of me was standing a small, dwarf-like man with a huge, bulbous head, who was jabbering excitedly in Dutch, waving two horrible hands which looked to me like brown sponges.
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