stunted
adjective C1- Prevented from growing or developing fully and hence shorter and stockier that usual. · A poor diet leads to stunted growth.
- Of a person: shorter than usual for one's age.
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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.
A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.
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