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dwarfed

  • past participle
    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.
  • past tense form
    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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The outbreak in Michigan this year has dwarfed previous outbreaks of the illness in the state, which recorded only about 50 cases of cyclosporiasis in 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

While Irish farmers did export some food to Britain, "it was dwarfed by the amount being brought in for distribution by the UK government", he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Still, all of these sums are dwarfed by the money driving growth at the U.S. leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Those games were dwarfed by football’s biggest night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green