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English Dictionary: stunted by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stunted
adj
  1. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
    Synonym(s): scrawny, scrubby, stunted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stunt \Stunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Stunting}.] [See {Stint}.]
      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 may do is beyond all calculation. --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stunted \Stunt"ed\, a.
      Dwarfed. -- {Stunt"ed*ness}, n.
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