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Definition: DWARFED |
DWARFEDImperative & past participle1. Of Dwarf |
Date "DWARFED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Littleness | Adjective: little; small; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DWARFED |
| English words defined with "DWARFED": Assam rubber ♦ bonsai ♦ Ficus elastica ♦ India-rubber fig, India-rubber plant, India-rubber tree ♦ Little peach ♦ ming tree ♦ rubber plant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DWARFED": Dwarf. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences (Gojira; writing credit: Shuichi Nagahara; Lisa Tomei) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dwarfed in an Arizona canyon White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Jensen Launch on line dwarfed by nuclear power plant cooling tower Launch off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Two vacationers dwarfed by the shorebreak as an offshore wind whips spray off the crest of the wave. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A cruise ship dwarfed by the magnificence of Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | RA-3 boat is dwarfed by Sawyer Glacier at the head of Tracy Arm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The McARTHUR dwarfed by cruise ships as it enters Key West Harbor. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Balloon barrage training center. Lilluputians at a weemie roast. This illustration is portrayed here by comparing the huge balloons and dwarfed trainees seated in picnic fashion around their instructor. Camp Tyson, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Town Hall" by Scott Ratcliffe Commentary: "The townhouse in boston. Used during the american revolution, a lot of history behind it, but dwarfed by the newer buildings." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
John Greenleaf Whittier | How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As the child grows older, the smallness of the skull becomes more obvious, although the entire body also is often underweight and dwarfed. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | The main Marmara ports, Bandirma, Mudanya, Canakkale and Gemlik, are dwarfed by these in Istanbul. (references) |
Women | Colombia | The ICBF conducted programs and provided refuge and counseling for victims of spousal abuse; however, the level and amount of these services were dwarfed by the magnitude of the problem. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DWARFED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 70.45% of the time. "DWARFED" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 70.45% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 26.14% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.41% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DWARFED": be dwarfed by. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DWARFED": masjid-dwarfed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DWARFED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | kääpiömäinen. (various references) | |
French | peuplement rabougri (stand of dwarfed trees). (various references) | |
German | hemmte (clogged, inhibited). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eltörpül vmi mellett (to be dwarfed by sg). (various references) | |
Italian | bosco di piante malformate (scrub stand, stand of dwarfed trees), boscaglia (brake, brush, Bush, thicket, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arfeddway.(various references) | |
Spanish | monte achaparrado (area of stunted trees, forest of stunted trees, scrub stand, stand of dwarfed trees). (various references) | |
Swedish | förkrympt (abortive, scrub, scrubby, stunted). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DWARFED": bedwarfed. (additional references) | |
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"DWARFED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'arfet, Darfold, Ddafydd, D'warden, dwarfen, Dwarfey, dwarsed, Wharfed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-r-w" | |
-1 letter: farded, wadder, warded. | |
-2 letters: adder, dared, dawed, dewar, dread, dwarf, faded, fader, fared, readd, waded, wader, wafer, wared. | |
-3 letters: awed, dare, dead, deaf, dear, draw, drew, fade, fard, fare, fear, frae, read, redd, wade, ward, ware, wear. | |
-4 letters: add, are, arf, awe, dad, daw, dew, ear, era, fad, far, fed, fer, few, rad, raw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-f-r-w" | |
+2 letters: bedwarfed, forwarded. | |
+5 letters: foreshadowed, waterflooded. | |
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