Dictionary Entry
dwarf
dwarf is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
- 2transitive verb
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- 3intransitive verb
To become small; to diminish in size.
- 4noun
a plant or animal that is atypically small
- 5noun
a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
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- 6noun
a person who is markedly small
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- 7verb
check the growth of
"the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
- 8verb
make appear small by comparison
"This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
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