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present participle and gerund of dwarf examples
countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings
The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant. quotations examples
Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.
2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248