dwarfed

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If a man's soul is stunted and gnarled and dwarfed, his actions will be.

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  1. noun An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
  2. noun An atypically small animal or plant.
  3. noun A small creature resembling a human, often ugly, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
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  • A human, with the brain submerged, dwarfed, and the body paramount? —  Astounding Stories, February 1932
  • All of them were dwarfed, however, by the contribution of Carrick. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Transgenic rice plants ectopically expressing AtBAK1 are semi-dwarfed and hypersensitive to 24-epibrassinolide bioinformatics brassinosteroid friends functional genomics microarray promoter seed tpj CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The insurance unit's profit was dwarfed, however, by the Fortis banking disaster which turned the €6 million profit into a €28 billion loss. —  Finance Markets: Finance News - UK Personal Financial News & Financial Markets
  • Selective extinction of suspension feeders and the prevalence of dwarfed organisms in the aftermath are palaeoecological consequences of these changes. —  RealClimate
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