DWARFING Definition & Meaning

dwarfing

[ dwawr-fing ]

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noun

Biology.

a process in which an animal breed or plant cultivar is intentionally induced, as by selective breeding and genetic engineering, to produce a breed or cultivar that is significantly smaller than the original: bulldogs and commercial fruit trees are examples of organisms that have been subjected to dwarfing.

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Origin of dwarfing¹

First recorded in 1620–30; dwarf ( def ) + -ing ¹( def )

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The earthquake has reduced it to a mountain of twisted rebar and shattered concrete, dwarfing the hundreds of rescue workers scurrying around it.

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Young people identify as LGBTQ+ today at the highest rates in history — dwarfing the number in prior generations.

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Despite diametrical differences in ideologies, in values, in ideals and systems, programs for extermination are in place at a magnitude dwarfing what occurred during the first half of the 1940s.

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The Netherlands, for example, expects around 60 million annual visitors by decade’s end — dwarfing the country’s population of about 18 million.

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The United States were the undoubted track and field champions in Paris, their total of 34 medals dwarfing Great Britain and Kenya who had the joint-second most with 10.

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