stunted

English

Verb

stunted

1. simple past and past participle of stunt

   The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.

Adjective

stunted (comparative more stunted, superlative most stunted)

1. Prevented from growing or developing fully and hence shorter and stockier that usual.

   A poor diet leads to stunted growth.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160:

     Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.

2. (medicine) Of a person: shorter than usual for one's age.

Related terms

• (medicine): wasted

Translations

prevented from growing or developing — see also limited

• Czech: zakrslý (cs) m
• Danish: kummerform c
• Esperanto: malaltkreska
• Finnish: kitukasvuinen (fi), kitulias (fi)
• German: verkümmert (de), unterentwickelt (de), verkrüppelt (de), gehemmt (de), kleinwüchsig (de)
• Māori: pūtutu, kaurehe, tūrukiruki, houtete, hūtoi, hūtoitoi, hōtoa, rehe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kortvokst

• Serbo-Croatian: kržljav (sh)
• Slovak: zakrslý
• Spanish: raquítico (es), impedido (es)
• Tagalog: unsyami
• Tày: ảy

of low height for age

• Finnish: lyhytkasvuinen (fi)
• German: kleinwüchsig (de), zwergwüchsig, unterentwickelt (de)
• Māori: pūkiki, rehe
• Spanish: atrofiado (es)

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