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11dwarf — index lessen, minimize Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
12dwarf — O.E. dweorh, dweorg (W.Saxon), duerg (Mercian), very short human being, from P.Gmc. *dweraz (Cf. O.Fris. dwerch, O.S. dwerg, O.H.G. twerg, Ger. Zwerg, O.N. dvergr), perhaps from PIE *dhwergwhos something tiny, but with no established cognates… …
13dwarf — The traditional plural in BrE is dwarfs, although dwarves is increasingly found, perhaps under the influence of J. R. R. Tolkien, who used it regularly. In general use meaning ‘a person of abnormally small stature’, alternative terms such as… …
14DWARF — For other uses, see Dwarf (disambiguation). DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats.[1] The name… …
15dwarf — dwarflike, adj. dwarfness, n. /dwawrf/, n., pl. dwarfs, dwarves, adj., v. n. 1. a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, esp. one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or… …
16dwarf — dwarf1 [dwo:f US dwo:rf] n plural dwarfs or dwarves [: Old English; Origin: dweorg] 1.) an imaginary creature that looks like a small man ▪ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 2.) a person who is a dwarf has not continued to grow to the normal… …
17dwarf — [[t]dwɔ͟ː(r)f[/t]] dwarves, dwarfs, dwarfing, dwarfed (The spellings dwarves or dwarfs are used for the plural form of the noun.) 1) VERB If one person or thing is dwarfed by another, the second is so much bigger than the first that it makes them …
18dwarf — [[t]dwɔrf[/t]] n. pl. dwarfs, dwarves, adj. v. 1) pat a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, esp. a condition that produces short limbs or anatomical deformation 2) bot zool. an animal or plant much smaller than… …
19dwarf — dwarf1 [ dwɔrf ] (plural dwarves [ dwɔrvz ] or dwarfs) noun count 1. ) an imaginary creature in children s stories that looks like a very small old man 2. ) OLD FASHIONED an offensive word for a person affected with the medical condition of… …
20dwarf — I UK [dwɔː(r)f] / US [dwɔrf] noun [countable] Word forms dwarf : singular dwarf plural dwarves UK [dwɔː(r)vz] / US [dwɔrvz] or dwarfs 1) an imaginary creature in children s stories that looks like a very small old man 2) old fashioned an… …
