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bedwarf

bedwarf verb: to make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.

Verb

bedwarf (third-person singular simple present bedwarfs, present participle bedwarfing, simple past and past participle bedwarfed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
    • Tis shrinking, not close weaving, that hath thus In mind and body both bedwarfed us.a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC

bedwarf meaning in Urdu

bedwarf in Urdu

بالشتیا بنانا

Forms of bedwarf

third-person singular presentbedwarfs
present participlebedwarfing
past participlebedwarfed
pastbedwarfed

Origin of bedwarf

From be- + dwarf.

Questions about bedwarf

What does bedwarf mean?
Bedwarf means to make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
What is bedwarf in Urdu?
Bedwarf in Urdu is بالشتیا بنانا. See Bedwarf meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bedwarf?
Bedwarf is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedwarf?
The past tense of bedwarf is bedwarfed.

Words near bedwarf in the dictionary

  1. bedward
  2. Bedwardism
  3. Bedwardite
  4. Bedwardites
  5. bedwards
  6. bedwarf
  7. bedwarfed
  8. bedwarfing
  9. bedwarfs
  10. bedwarmer
  11. bedwarmers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedwarf (page history and authors); bedwarf (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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