verb
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(cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
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To show off; to posture.
verb
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To check or hinder the growth or development of.
example
Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
adjective
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Prevented from growing or developing
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Of a person: shorter than usual for their age.
Examples of stunted in a Sentence
The island is covered with stunted trees.
My magic was stunted this time around.
The prorachidial and metarachidial aspects of the rachis are sterile, but the sides or pararachides bear numerous daughter zooids of two kinds - (I) fully-formed autozooids, (2) small stunted siphonozooids.
Hair growth can actually be stunted by excess dirt and oils.
But generally the low grounds are parched and rocky, presenting only a few thickets of Peruvian cactus and stunted shrubs, and a most uninviting shore.
If it allows of too free drainage drought sets in and the plants, not getting enough water for their needs, become stunted in size.
Side effects of steroids include stunted growth.
Mature dock plants have been stunted by sheep grazing leaves.
Dwarfed eucalypts fringe the tree-limit on Mount Kosciusco, and the soakages in the parched interior are indicated by a line of the same trees, stunted and straggling.
Short, ugly, stunted creatures that are said to be able to pass for human.
On the plains where grasses cannot find sufficient moisture their place is taken by " bush," composed mainly of stunted mimosas, acacias, euphorbia, wild pomegranate, bitter aloes and herbaceous plants.
There is little vegetation save stunted shrubs, such as the mimosa (which generally marks the river beds), wild pomegranate, and wax heaths, known collectively as Karroo bush.
In these the tentacles are stunted or suppressed and the mesenteries are ill-developed, but the sulcus is unusually large and has long cilia.
He may be intellectually precocious yet emotionally stunted and amoral.
Without nitrogen, plants are weak and stunted.
We may name, besides those already specified - in the Naples Museum, " St Euphemia," a fine early work; in Casa Melzi, Milan, the " Madonna and Child with Chanting Angels " (1461); in the Tribune of the Uffizi, Florence, three pictures remarkable for scrupulous finish; in the Berlin Museum, the " Dead Christ with two Angels "; in the Louvre, the two celebrated pictures of mythic allegory- " Parnassus " and " Minerva Triumphing over the Vices "; in the National Gallery, London, the " Agony in the Garden," the " Virgin and Child Enthroned, with the Baptist and the Magdalen," a late example; the monochrome of " Vestals," brought from Hamilton Palace; the " Triumph of Scipio " (or Phrygian Mother of the Gods received by the Roman Commonwealth), a tempera in chiaroscuro, painted only a few months before the master's death; in the Brera, Milan, the " Dead Christ, with the two Maries weeping," a remarkable tour de force in the way of foreshortening, which, though it has a stunted appearance, is in correct technical perspective as seen from all points of view.
The New Guinea native is usually of a negroid type with fine physique, but in the Arfak mountains in the north-west, and at points on the west and north coasts and adjacent islands, the very degraded and stunted Karons are found, with hardly the elements of social organization (possibly the aboriginal race unmixed with foreign elements), and resembling the Aetas or Negritos of the Philippines, and other kindred tribes in the Malay Archipelago.
Shelley's "The Boat on the Serchio," 117, "woods of stunted fir" for "pine" which the rhyme requires; Prince Athanase, 250, "And sea buds burst beneath the waves serene" for "under."
He only asked her to take him to the stunted pine where her father was so fond of going with her.
Two or three stunted bushes were boxed into a small strip of grass that bounded it like a monk 's tonsure.
Grown on an ordinary border it invariably has a weak, stunted appearance; but in a free rich soil, in a shady position and well supplied with moisture, I have often seen it 3 to 4 1/2 feet high and flowering profusely.
The dwarf kinds are disappointing; they flower so freely, and the growth of the plants is so sparse that they always appear stunted.
Plants that are under attack by a large number of aphids may show signs such as reduced growth, wilted leaves, drying branches, stunted needles, and curled foliage.
If the disease cycle repeats year after year, the tree may become stunted or deformed because it cannot keep its leaves long enough to grow.
If plants have severely yellowed leaves or stunted growth, a small dose of liquid fertilizer will quickly provide the necessary nutrients in an easily absorbed medium.
Children who are malnourished may be skinny or bloated and may be short for their age (stunted).
Stunted growth may be a symptom of atrial septal defect.
Earlier surgical treatment is recommended when the child develops symptoms or has stunted growth.
Septal defects-difficulty breathing, stunted growth, and high blood pressure.
If left untreated, severe anemia can result in stunted growth and development, as well as other characteristic physical complications that can lead to a dramatically decreased life expectancy.
Marasmus is characterized by stunted growth and wasting of muscle and tissue.
Vitamin D deficiency can cause rickets, which can lead to permanently stunted or irregular growth.
Like the crops, if one of those elements is missing or in the wrong order, you could end up with no crop at all or, at the very least, diseased and stunted crops.
In children, signs may include stunted growth or an overall failure to thrive.
When that discovery is limited, social growth may be stunted.
Without a sufficient supply plants remain stunted and the crop yield is seriously reduced, as we see in dry seasons when the rainfall is much below the average.
The columns encircling the cylindrical portion are stunted and much broader at the base than the top; the capitals are Doric. Many of the columns, 60 in number, have been much damaged.
The peculiar short, stunted branches or " spurs " which bear the flower-buds of the pear, apple, plum, sweet cherry, red currant, laburnum, &c., deserve special attention.
If weather is cold and backward, however, and in very northern regions, care must be taken not to stop firing too soon, or the plants will mildew and become stunted.
In the third and highest zone the vegetation is stunted, and there is a narrow zone of sub-Alpine shrubs, but no Alpine flora.
Patches of stunted jungle here and there diversify their rugged and barren aspect; but they abound in minerals, especially copper and iron ores.
When the thyroid gland is absent in children, not only is the expression of the face dull and heavy as in the adult, but the growth both of body and mind is arrested, and the child remains a stunted idiot.
Reincarnation left his power stunted and him far less brash in how he used what remained.
The second stage is simply a matter of blasting or avoiding alien craft, which behave like stunted refugees from Galaxians.
Affected cotton plants exhibit a range of symptoms such as leaf curling, stunted growth and a poor yield of cotton fiber.
Two or three stunted bushes were boxed into a small strip of grass that bounded it like a monk's tonsure.
Asia-Pacific growth was stunted at 2.5% in the aftermath of the tsunami tragedy.
The inner slopes and ranges of the Elburz south of the principal watershed, generally the central one of the three principal ranges which are outside of the fertilizing influence of the moisture brought from the sea, have little or no natural vegetation, and those farthest south are, excepting a few stunted cypresses, completely arid and bare.
Pebrine manifests itself by dark spots in the skin of the larvae; the eggs do not hatch out, or hatch imperfectly; the worms are weak, stunted and unequal in growth, languid in movement, fastidious in feeding; many perish before coming to maturity; if they spin a cocoon it is soft and loose, and moths when developed are feeble and inactive.
I cannot. My Sight has been stunted, no doubt as punishment for my tampering in Fate's court.