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stunted

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1. stunted - Adjective

2. stunted - Verb

4. stunted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Stunt

Dwarfed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive. James Baldwin

What is the use of talking of Empire if here, at its very centre, there is always to be found a mass of people stunted in education, prey to intemperance, huddled and congested beyond the possibility of realising in any true sense either social or domestic life. H. H. Asquith

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. Dirk Benedict

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. Robert Fortune

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers. Willie Stargell

The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder. Leigh Brackett

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