stunt

[Stunt]

To stunt is to slow or hinder. Some people say that drinking coffee will stunt your growth when you're a teenager they worry that you won't grow any taller.

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To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

Noun
a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention

Noun
a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth

Verb
perform a stunt or stunts

Verb
check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles"


v. t.
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

n.
A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

n.
Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.


Stunt

Stunt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.] [See Stint.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation.

Stunt

Stunt , n. 1. A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. 2. Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

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Usage Examples

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.

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