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dwarfings

dwarfings is the plural of dwarfing.

Meaning of dwarfing

Noun

dwarfing (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings)

  1. The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant.
    • Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248

Questions about dwarfings

What is dwarfings the plural of?
Dwarfings is the plural of dwarfing.

Words near dwarfings in the dictionary

  1. dwarfettes
  2. dwarfholder
  3. dwarfholders
  4. dwarfin
  5. dwarfing
  6. dwarfings
  7. dwarfins
  8. dwarfish
  9. dwarfishly
  10. dwarfishness
  11. dwarfism

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