Word Meanings - SCRUBBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

Related words: (words related to SCRUBBED)

• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• DWARF
  An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively
• STUNT
  To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or
• STUNTED
  Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.
• STUNTNESS
  Stuntedness; brevity. Earle.
• DWARFISH
  Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
• DWARFY
  Much undersized. Waterhouse.
• BEDWARF
  To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.