DWARFED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

dwarfed

verb

Definition of dwarfed next

past tense of dwarf

as in suppressed

to hold back the normal growth of shrubs dwarfed by the lack of water

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Recent Examples of dwarfed Then, as her fingers raced across the fretboard of an upright bass that dwarfed her petite figure, Amy Gadiaga wove vocal magic. —

Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026 Even that number may be dwarfed by the number of claims not yet brought. —

J.c. Hallman, Oklahoman, 27 Feb. 2026 In 1930, the 1,450 front-line Prohibition agents dwarfed the 350 FBI field agents across the country. —

Richard F. Hamm, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026 Historically, and certainly since the turn of the century, their budgets have dwarfed those of every other Scottish team. —

The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026 San Jose, of course, is hampered by a lack of five-star hotel rooms and a convention center dwarfed by San Francisco’s Moscone Center. —

Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026 Hanna Liden’s photographs reimagined the northern Romantic landscape tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Vilhelm Hammershøi as populated by practitioners of the suburban occult, with figures in skull masks or Grim Reaper hoods dwarfed by moody vistas. —

Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026 That may be a good idea, as the department is already struggling with significant IDR application backlogs that may be dwarfed by a surge of new applications once the SAVE plan settlement agreement is approved. —

Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026 In 2015, Phoebe Philo cast an 80-year-old Joan Didion in a Celine campaign, the author’s face dwarfed by a pair of oversized black sunglasses, yet still entirely identifiable. —

Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026

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And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Despite losing a similar argument in federal court at the end of January, accused CEO assassin Luigi Mangione's defense team is again vying to have damning evidence from his backpack suppressed in a New York state court.

— Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026