SkyfireDict

dwarf   (TTS Sound)

The noun dwarf has 3 senses

• dwarf, midget, nanus -- (a person who is markedly small)


• gnome, dwarf -- (a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure)


• dwarf -- (a plant or animal that is atypically small)

The verb dwarf has 2 senses

• shadow, overshadow, dwarf -- (make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year")


• dwarf -- (check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines")