Dwarf

A lean or emaciated person (Lev. 21:20).

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To become small; to diminish in size. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.