STUNTED

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

(adjective) inferior in size or quality; “scrawny cattle”; “scrubby cut-over pine”; “old stunted thorn trees”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

stunted

simple past tense and past participle of stunt

Adjective

stunted (comparative more stunted, superlative most stunted)

prevented from growing or developing

(medicine) Of a person: shorter than usual for their age.

Anagrams

• student

Source: Wiktionary


Stunt"ed, a.

Definition: Dwarfed.

– Stunt"ed*ness, n.

STUNT

Stunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.] Etym: [See Stint.]

Definition: To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke.

Stunt, n.

1. A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

2. Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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