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are dwarfing

  • present progressive
    of dwarf.
    dwarf
    noun
    a person of abnormally small physical stature resulting from a medical or genetic condition, especially a person with achondroplasia or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.

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“They are dwarfing us when it comes to commercial investment and trade,” said Joseph Sany, who heads the Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

But openings are dwarfing that by factors of two or even three these days.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

If you do it in the springtime, and if you keep on debudding along in June and July, you are dwarfing your trees.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

You must get away from these views, for they are dwarfing and not becoming to you, and if you do not we shall be very unhappy.

From An American Suffragette by Isaac Newton Stevens