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• n  a person who is markedly small
• n  a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
• n  a plant or animal that is atypically small
• v  make appear small by comparison
  This year's debt dwarfs that of last year
• v  check the growth of
  the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines

• Novella Carpenter raises dwarf goats and chickens at her home in Oakland, Calif.
• Novella Carpenter who lives in Oakland, California with dwarf goats.
• The little dwarf star flares up.

• midget
• nanus
• gnome
• shadow
• overshadow

News & Articles

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• 2013 World Dwarf Games to be held at MSU
  The World Dwarf Games are returning to East Lansing on Aug. 3-10, 30 years after they were launched on Michigan State's campus.
  June 18, 2013 - DeWitt-Bath Review
• World Dwarf Games will be held at MSU
  The World Dwarf Games are returning to East Lansing on Aug. 3-10, 30 years after they were launched on Michigan State's campus. More than 400 athletes from 23 nations and every U.S. state are slated to compete in the games, held every four years. It will be the largest sporting event exclusively for athletes with dwarfism ever.
  June 18, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Marc Jacobs Called Cara Delevingne a 'Dwarf' Once, 'Love' Magazine's Furry Guest Editor,and More!
  (Getty Images) Stylist Katie Grand reminisced about that time Marc Jacobs called Cara Delevingne a dwarf. (Wait, what?) "I was trying to get her in the show, but it was the show in which everyone was very tall and very long. I remember Marc looking at me and saying, ‘Why is that dwarf in here?’, and me being devastated...I apologized to her afterwards.” Delevingne is 5'9, btw. [The Independent ...
  June 17, 2013 - StyleBistro

Quotes

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• Ban Ki-moon in Boston Globe (registration)
  In New York, Ban warned of an "outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's crisis."
• Danny Boyle in FOXNews
  Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn't, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy,director Danny Boyle said, holding up his Oscar.
• Bob Arum in 940 News
  If we can get that done, that's going to dwarf anything you see now,said Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. "That's going to be a monster."