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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stunted
adjective
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▪ A few stunted rowan trees reinforced the feeling of desolation.
▪ He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes.
▪ Holly no longer looked at him, he stared back at the stunted ruin that had been the office of the Commandant.
▪ If it continues over a long period it could even lead to stunted growth.
▪ See the magnificent church of St. Mary, surrounded by small white houses set amongst palm trees and stunted eucalyptus.
▪ The discovery of his idol's feet of clay proves intolerable to the lonely, emotionally stunted fan.
▪ The willows between Essoldo and stream were old, stunted and easy to climb.
▪ They stood like stunted spectres, and he winced at their disfigurements as he drew close.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stunted

Stunted \Stunt"ed\, a. Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.

Stunted

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.

Wiktionary
stunted
  1. 1 prevented from growing or developing 2 (context medicine English) low height-for-age (for a person). v

  2. (en-past of: stunt)

WordNet
stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny, scrubby]

Usage examples of "stunted".

And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.

And now, three thousand years later, like a bonsai tree that had been pruned and repruned into its final, twisted shape, he was fixed in himself, was stunted and constrained and nearly dead.

He stood or squatted within bowshot, but behind such rocks and stunted trees as offered shelter.

He stole along under shadow of the stunted trees and withies, with bent body and gliding gait, so that from Bridgewater it would be no easy matter for the most keen-sighted to see him.

He had found Billy nursing Eversofar in the shade of a stunted brigalow, while Bingong was away hunting for water.

Found in the Nevada mountains, the bristlecone pine is a stunted specimen looking more like a piece of standing driftwood than a living organism, but it can live five thousand years!

TV set with its compulsively hypomanic dwarfed and stunted figure, now gesticulating in a speeded-up frenzy, as if the video technicians had allowed -- or induced -- the tape to seek its maximum velocity.

Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.

Stunted, alien creatures, warped by enormous forces into miserably malformed, distorted shapes.

Eucalyptus dumosus, vulgarly called Mallee, and exceedingly stunted specimens of that, will grow anything, I will tell him he knows nothing.

Cities of any sort were far, far away, and there was nothing but stunted manzanita as far as the eye could see.

There the earth was so filled with moorstone and peat that only stunted trees and the poor grasses could survive.

Not a forest of the tall sturdy trees of warmer climates, these birches were stunted and dwarfed by the harsh periglacial conditions, yet they were not without beauty.

On the Unallied Planets there was a variety of races, some with stunted statures.

With the exception of the palm and the gigantic Adansonia, the trees are for the most part stunted in appearance.