dwarfing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

dwarfing

  1. present participle and gerund of dwarf

Noun[edit]

dwarfing (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings)

  1. The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.
    • 2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248:
      Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.
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