stunt
verb/stʌnt/
/stʌnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stunt | /stʌnt/ /stʌnt/ |
| he / she / it stunts | /stʌnts/ /stʌnts/ |
| past simple stunted | /ˈstʌntɪd/ /ˈstʌntɪd/ |
| past participle stunted | /ˈstʌntɪd/ /ˈstʌntɪd/ |
| -ing form stunting | /ˈstʌntɪŋ/ /ˈstʌntɪŋ/ |
- stunt somebody/something to prevent somebody/something from growing or developing as much as they/it should
- The constant winds had stunted the growth of plants and bushes.
- His illness had not stunted his creativity.
Word Originverb late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘bring to an abrupt halt’): from dialect stunt ‘foolish, stubborn’, of Germanic origin; perhaps related to stump.
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