Verb (used with object) : A harsh climate stunted the trees. Brutal treatment in childhood stunted his personality. From Dictionary.com.
Leaving the marriage only results in stunted growth. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Your Marriage] Reference
An example: If a person were to say that a short tree is "stunted". From Wordnik.com. ['R word' politics stir up controversy] Reference
But Jim is kind of stunted in his career, and his dream isn't to be selling paper. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Macatee: Outsourced's' Ben Rappaport Says Show Stereotypes Human Nature, Not Indian Culture] Reference
Yes, there is plenty of "stunted" characters (like Tippi Hedren in The Birds), but Hitchcock uses an adult eye to gaze at them. From Wordnik.com. [Hitchcock and Adult Sexuality] Reference
So, for all you "stunted" parents out there, this is for you!. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
"A number of pains, heartache and stunted growth," said Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Pettitte Rehab Has a Minor Setback] Reference
A miserable, stunted life was not a concept we could imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Above the River's Edge] Reference
Beyond the numbers, it means stolen lives and stunted futures. From Wordnik.com. [How to Feed the World] Reference
Steel demand was stunted by the growth of plastics and aluminum. From Wordnik.com. [How Our American Dream Unraveled] Reference
In addition wages would be "stunted" for another 10.2 million wage earners. ". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
About how too much rain, not enough rain stunted the big orange gourds 'growth. From Wordnik.com. [Why'd You Come Back?] Reference
That, say Bengali leaders, stunted the development of entrepreneurial instincts. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To Kolkata] Reference
The air was colder now, and the trees more distantly spaced, shorter and stunted. From Wordnik.com. [Record of a Living Being] Reference
In both hands he balanced what looked like a pie plate that held a stunted little tree. From Wordnik.com. [Garden] Reference
The war's billion-dollar-a-year cost has stunted the economy and kept foreign investors away. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In The Hell Of War] Reference
A cash culture has stunted real-estate markets even in countries with fast-growing populations. From Wordnik.com. [Learning to Leverage] Reference
They have found evidence of an entire generation stunted by hunger, but not of widespread deaths. From Wordnik.com. ['Where Are The Bodies?'] Reference
The problem is how to get regimes to see it, to see that without democracy their country is stunted. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wald: Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei: Is the Arab world ready for reform?] Reference
Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion — all highly ranked in my stunted adolescent consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [For Those About to Rock, We Will Tune You] Reference
It prompted the transformation of a stunted, totalitarian misfit into a prosperous Western democracy. From Wordnik.com. [How America Learned To Liberate] Reference
Its attempts to build a market economy are stunted, mafia-ridden; its public life is brute vaudeville. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Sunshine In Moscow] Reference
It's about angry fans, fights in the stands, losing teams, long sufferance and stunted emotional growth. From Wordnik.com. [Fenway 'Fever'] Reference
Conventional therapy can also cause stunted growth, infertility, lung damage and even secondary cancers. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Up Healthy, Afterward] Reference
And Minnesotans don't take kindly to negative campaigning, which might have stunted some of Coleman's attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Can Linda McMahon learn from Al Franken?] Reference
Five weeks of drought stunted the harvest, but the yield per acre was still much greater than the average for Nigeria. From Wordnik.com. ['Nigeria Could Feed Africa'] Reference
Gone is the weird-but-workable parking brake lever incorporated into the dashboard trim and the stunted column shifter. From Wordnik.com. [Just in: Honda CR-V] Reference
He spoke before scattered showers late last month provided some respite from the summer's drought, which has stunted crops. From Wordnik.com. [State agriculture chief urges St. Mary's farmers to diversify crops] Reference
Among the sadder sights of the coast are the wrecks of yesteryear, still hanging to a ledge or a stunted pine partway down. From Wordnik.com. [Escape To The Balkans] Reference
These consequences include perpetual stunted development, as well as creeping dominance of the radical discourse and instability. From Wordnik.com. [Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Fighting for a culture of enlightenment in Palestine and beyond] Reference
The physical impact of precocious puberty means earlier testicular and penile development along with stunted growth in the long run. From Wordnik.com. [Cristen Conger: Girls' Puberty Coming Sooner -- But What about the Boys?] Reference
Their two twentysomething sons, Jamie and Edmund, are embittered and stunted by their father's tyranny and their mother's addiction. From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference
These divisions will either eventually go away or are now so severely stunted that they will just barely survive as small operations. From Wordnik.com. [Ford, Revving Forward] Reference
Relatives attributed the boys 'stunted growth to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), which investigators say two of the boys were born with. From Wordnik.com. [Arrested Development] Reference
Internally my emotional growth had been stunted, and I was probably stuck somewhere around the early teens or younger, until I met Lisa. From Wordnik.com. [Everybody Was a Virgin Once] Reference
Poor nutrition and education in the developing world will launch a cycle of stunted growth, weak brain development, and underperformance. From Wordnik.com. [An Empty Poor Box at the United Nations] Reference
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