Stunt
[stʌnt]
Definition
(noun.) a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention.
(noun.) a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth.
(verb.) perform a stunt or stunts.
(verb.) check the growth or development of; 'You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles'.
Inputed by Kurt--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dwarf, stop the growth of, hinder from growth.
Edited by Eva
Definition
v.t. to hinder from growth to dwarf check.—n. a check in growth: an animal whose growth is stunted.—adj. Stunt′ed dwarfed.—n. Stunt′edness state of being stunted.
Editor: Rudolf
Examples
- What happened is described by Adams as follows: We gathered up a couple of sounders, a battery, and sonic wire, and at the appointed time called on her to do the stunt. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The child has specific powers; to ignore that fact is to stunt or distort the organs upon which his growth depends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Near by stood a stunted oak-tree, which was made historical by the event. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread themselves above the island-dotted waters. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- YOU, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, and stunted what he should have been! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Halfway down the hill the path ran near a knot of stunted hollies, which in the general darkness of the scene stood as the pupil in a black eye. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- From Aucassin to Nietzsche men have resented it as a partial and stunting dream. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Whoever is removing the stunting environments of our occupations is doing the fundamentals of reform. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Tyler