Synonyms for dwarfed
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dwawrf |
| Phonetic Transcription : dwɔrf |
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Définition of dwarfed
Origin :- Old English dweorh, dweorg (West Saxon), duerg (Mercian), "very short human being," from Proto-Germanic *dweraz (cf. Old Frisian dwerch, Old Saxon dwerg, Old High German twerg, German Zwerg, Old Norse dvergr), perhaps from PIE *dhwergwhos "something tiny," but with no established cognates outside Germanic. The mythological sense is 1770, from German (it seems never to have developed independently in English).
- Whilst in this and other ways the dwarfs do at times have dealings with mankind, yet on the whole they seem to shrink from man; they give the impression of a downtrodden afflicted race, which is on the point of abandoning its ancient home to new and more powerful invaders. There is stamped on their character something shy and something heathenish, which estranges them from intercourse with christians. They chafe at human faithlessness, which no doubt would primarily mean the apostacy from heathenism. In the poems of the Mid. Ages, Laurin is expressly set before us as a heathen. It goes sorely against the dwarfs to see churches built, bell-ringing ... disturbs their ancient privacy; they also hate the clearing of forests, agriculture, new fangled pounding-machinery for ore. ["Teutonic Mythology," Jacob Grimm, transl. Stallybrass, 1883]
- The shift of the Old English guttural at the end of the word to modern -f is typical (cf. enough, draft). Old English plural dweorgas became Middle English dwarrows, later leveled down to dwarfs. The use of dwarves for the legendary race was popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien. As an adjective, from 1590s.
- verb minimize
- We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases.
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- But how the form of such a woman must be dwarfed in the camera of such a man's mind!
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- Our workmen and soldiers are large in physique, but dwarfed of intellect.
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- But since then achievements in steam have dwarfed even the great work of Corliss.
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- Captain Whalley was not dwarfed by the solitude of the grandly planned street.
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- He was dwarfed by his daughters, by the furniture, by any caller of ordinary stature.
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- I once imagined this dwarfed and stinted scrub to be a wood.
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- Yet the whole, as it stands, is utterly marred by the Virgin's dwarfed limbs.
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- Humanity has progressed in spite of the fear that has dwarfed our stature.
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- I am sure my 'true woman' will never be crushed or dwarfed by them.
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Antonyms for dwarfed
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