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UK
/dwˈɔːf/
]
[ US /ˈdwɔɹf/ ]
[ US /ˈdwɔɹf/ ]
VERB
-
check the growth of
the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines -
make appear small by comparison
This year's debt dwarfs that of last year
NOUN
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
How To Use dwarf In A Sentence
- The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
- Following three young people with dwarfism, with the focus on normal everyday challenges. Times, Sunday Times
- The star in question, KIC 05807616, has a rather interesting description: "a seemingly isolated pulsating hot B subdwarf. Ars Technica
- Such signals can be located on a mast, bridge, or cantilever structure and in some rare cases in a dwarf signal.
- Half way down there is a scrog of wood, dwarf alders and hawthorn, which makes an arch over the path. Prester John
- Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
- Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
- And so when they had repasted them well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again; and there met with him the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and asked him from whence that he came, and where he had been. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- For one thing, the English word 'dwarf' has two possible plurals: 'dwarfs' and Orbit Books | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
- The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true. Our medieval ancestors were of similar height and suffered similar ailments as ours