← Từ điển

dwarf

B2 verb

dwarf /dwɔɹf/ nghĩa là thu nhỏ lại

Các nghĩa

  1. thu nhỏ lại

    To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

    transitive

    I'm not a midget. I'm a dwarf!

    Dwarf tossing is not an Olympic sport.

    I am not a dwarf. I am of short stature.

  2. làm cho có vẻ nhỏ bé

    To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

    transitive

    The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

  3. làm lu mờ

    To make appear insignificant.

    transitive

    Bach dwarfs all other composers.

  4. trở nên nhỏ bé

    To become (much) smaller.

    intransitive

  5. kìm hãm sự phát triển

    To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

    At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk - into a race of beauties that seems almost another species

    Even the most common moral ideas and affections […] would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.

Dạng khác