Word Meanings - BEDWARF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

Related words: (words related to BEDWARF)

• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• DWARF
  An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• STUNT
  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
• DONNEE
  Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley. That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own. Saintsbury.
• STUNTED
  Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.
• STUNTNESS
  Stuntedness; brevity. Earle.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• HINDERER
  One who, or that which, hinders.
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• HINDERANCE
  See HINDRANCE
• HINDER
  Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38. (more info) OHG. hintar, prep., behind, G. hinter, Goth.
• DWARFISH
  Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
• HINDERLING
  A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. Callander.
• DWARFY
  Much undersized. Waterhouse.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• CORDONNET
  Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.
• UPGROWTH
  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.
• OVERGROWTH
  Excessive growth.