dwarf

[US]/dwɔːf/
[UK]/dwɔːrf/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. become smaller in size
n. a person who is unusually small
vt. cause to appear small
adj. having a small stature

Phrases & Collocations

dwarfism

white dwarf

dwarf star

brown dwarf

red dwarf

Example Sentences

a dwarf tree; dwarf shrubbery.

The elephant dwarfed the tortoise.

He dwarfs other dramatists.

Shakespeare dwarfs other dramatists.

His children were dwarfed by insufficient food.

the buildings surround and dwarf All Saints church.

The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.

the dense perplexity of dwarf palm, garlanded creepers, glossy undergrowth.

A dwarf going upstairs getting higher step by step.

" Hefting the fragrant crate, the dwarf slowly made his way to the Military Ward;

For the detection of Rice dwarf virus(RDV) from single leafhopper and leaf,the dot-blotted hybridization method based on molecular biology were established.

Here is a miraculous Narnia magic kingdom——a magic world once possessed full of spirits and talkable animals, dwarf and giant , in this world, "human" is the biological of the myth.

If the incoming projectile were a white dwarf—a superdense star that packs the mass of the sun into a body a hundredth the size—the residents of Earth would be treated to quite a fireworks show.

We also describe the basic principle of white dwarf cosmochronology and its application in defining the age of the Galactic disk, globular clusters, open clusters and Galactic halo.

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