dwarfing

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noun

The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dwarf
noundwarfing (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings)

plural dwarfings

  1. countableuncountableThe situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.

    Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.

    2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248
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APA

dwarfing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwarfing

MLA

“dwarfing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwarfing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dwarfing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwarfing.

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