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dwarfed

/dwawrf/US // dwɔrf //UK // (dwɔːf) //

矮小的,矮化,矮化的,相形见绌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural dwarves [dwawrvz], /dwɔrvz/, dwarfs.

    • : a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially a person with congenital hypothyroidism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
    • : an animal or plant much smaller than the average of its kind or species.
    • : a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
    • : Astronomy. dwarf star.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to cause to appear or seem small in size, extent, character, etc., as by being much larger or better: He dwarfed all his rivals in athletic ability.
    • : to make dwarf or dwarfish; prevent the due development of.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to become stunted or smaller.

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Examples

  • The Kebler aspens dwarfed me, indeed, but better yet they left me with a sense of embeddedness and immersion, a sense of how habitat holds us.

  • General Tom Thumb, a dwarf, danced and sang in Revolutionary War regalia.

  • Smaller, cooler, older red dwarf stars are far more abundant than sun-like stars.

  • On Thursday, 116,707 new cases were reported, the second straight record for a single day and a figure that dwarfed the total for any day in the previous worst two periods of the outbreak, in April and July.

  • Now compare Pluto to the closest of the Centauri stars, a diminutive red dwarf called Proxima.

  • And who can blame them for feeling disenfranchised when they see their efforts dwarfed by the mega donors.

  • Even if there are a few more, the list is dwarfed by the number of famous progressive comedians.

  • Normally, Gaga would be working with the giant teddy bears, not getting dwarfed by them.

  • But both groups were dwarfed by a large gathering in the park of a group called Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights.

  • In what sense can the government "hold her accountable" in any way that is not dwarfed by her own conscience, and memory?

  • For every detail is so marvellously symmetrical that no one is dwarfed, no one challenges special attention.

  • The restoration of stolen goods was probably dwarfed in his mind by the importance of capturing the stealers.

  • Everything relating to human affairs seemed dwarfed in such immensity.

  • All the dull months he had spent with Cash and the burros dwarfed into a pointless, irrelevant incident of his life.

  • How stunted and dwarfed the groves of our new academies when compared with the rich luxuriance of the gardens of Trinity!