Definitions for dwarf

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Spelling: [dwawrf]

IPA: /dwɔrf/

Dwarf is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in dwarf (adfrw).

Definitions for dwarf

noun

1. a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
2. an animal or plant much smaller than the average of its kind or species.
3. (in folklore) a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
4. Astronomy. dwarf star.

adjective

1. of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to appear or seem small in size, extent, character, etc., as by being much larger or better:
2. to make dwarf or dwarfish; prevent the due development of.

verb (used without object)

1. to become stunted or smaller.

Origin of dwarf

before 900; Middle English dwerf, Old English dweorh; replacing Middle English dwerg, Old English dweorg; cognate with Old High German twerg, Old Norse dvergr

Examples for dwarf

Another group of mistletoes, dwarf mistletoes, does things a bit differently.

“dwarf mistletoe is freaky, freaky, freaky stuff,” says David Watson, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia.

I simply adore them, and I should have liked to have a dwarf elephant.

The city is incredibly violent for its size, on par with metropolises that dwarf the town.

But Wotan drew the ring from the dwarf's finger, then set him free.

If they succeed, their dismantling of the ACA will dwarf everything else that has happened in our era.

To expect less is to get less, since it is to dwarf my own power of receiving.

While Alberich boasted, he was planning how he might trick the dwarf and take his gold.

And he was followed by each one of them until the seventh dwarf looked at his bed and saw Little Snow White lying there asleep.

But then the Pasteur was short, and his brother was a dwarf.