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Grammar : Adj
Spell : stuhn-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstʌn tɪd



Definition of stunted

Origin :
  • "check in growth, dwarf," 1650s, verb use of Middle English adjective stunnt "foolish," from Old English stunt "short-witted, foolish" (cf. stuntspræc "foolish talk"), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (cf. Old Norse stuttr "short"), from the root of stump. Related: Stunted; stunting.
  • adj kept from growing
Example sentences :
  • He was interred under the stunted oak where Master Headley had been tied.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • The thick, stunted columns, left in the rough, also awaited their sculptors.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • She felt cheated, stunted, revengeful because of this common fate.
  • Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
  • Jakin was a stunted child of fourteen, and Lew was about the same age.
  • Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Everywhere on Long Island grew the stunted bushes, and everywhere they were valued.
  • Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • All the oaks are dwarfs, stunted by the lack of soil and force of the winds.
  • Extract from : « Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts » by Rosalind Northcote
  • Out of the saddle he was seen to be short and stunted, with legs badly bowed.
  • Extract from : « Nicanor - Teller of Tales » by C. Bryson Taylor
  • You have even been stunted in your growth, as Lady Anne said.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • He said he didn't want none of us to be stunted in our growing.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
  • In the Northern colonies the growth was stunted by the climate.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Christianity » by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Synonyms for stunted

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