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Definition: DWARFING |
DWARFINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dwarf |
Date "DWARFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Crosswords: DWARFING |
| Specialty definitions using "DWARFING": court-noué ♦ fan leaf, fanleaf of grapevine ♦ infectious degeneration, infectious degeneration of grapes. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Hookworm Infection: Showing dwarfing effect of the disease]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Dwarfing everything. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms of MPS IV, or Morquio syndrome, usually appear in infancy and may include severe dwarfing and corneal clouding. (references) | |
MPS II, also called Hunter syndrome, affects juveniles and includes a mild and a severe form. Signs of the severe form are joint stiffness, mental deterioration, dwarfing, and progressive deafness. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bangladesh | The country has done less well, however, in expanding its export base--garments account for more than three-fourths of all exports, dwarfing the country's historic cash crop, jute, along with leather, shrimp, pharmaceuticals and ceramics. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DWARFING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "DWARFING" is used about 24 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 (-ing form) | 87.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DWARFING": semi-dwarfing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DWARFING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dværgvækst der skyldes næringsmangel (nutritional dwarfing), porta enxerto nanisante (dwarfing rootstock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dwerggroei-onderstam (dwarfing rootstock), dwerggroei door ondervoeding (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | porte-greffes nanisant (dwarfing rootstock), nanisme nutritionnel (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hemmend (clamming, clogging, frustrating, inhibiting, inhibitory, obstructing, trigging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | portinnesto nanizzante (dwarfing rootstock), nanismo nutrizionale (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arfingdway nanismo nutricional (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) enanismo nutricional (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) nutritionsrelaterad tillväxthämning (nutritional dwarfing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DWARFING": bedwarfing. (additional references) | |
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"DWARFING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dafang, dwarfen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DWARFING" (pronounced dwô"rfing) |
| 5 | -ô" r f i ng | morphing. |
| 3 | -f i ng | beefing, bluffing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, debriefing, doffing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, huffing, knifing, laughing, leafing, offing, photographing, proofing, puffing, rebuffing, roofing, roughing, ruffing, rustproofing, sniffing, snuffing, spiffing, spoofing, staffing, strafing, stuffing, surfing, waterproofing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-i-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: drawing, farding, warding. | |
-2 letters: daring, dawing, fading, faring, gradin, inward, wading, waring. | |
-3 letters: awing, dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, dwarf, fagin, garni, grain, grand, grind, infra, nadir, ranid, rawin, wigan, wrang, wring. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, arid, dang, darn, dawn, ding, drag, draw, fain, fair, fang, fard, fawn, fiar, find, firn, frag, frig, gadi, gain, gird. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-g-i-n-r-w" | |
+2 letters: bedwarfing, forwarding. | |
+5 letters: foreshadowing, waterflooding. | |
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