Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dwarf
Participle: dwarfed
Gerund: dwarfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dwarf |
| you | dwarf |
| he;she;it | dwarfs |
| we | dwarf |
| you | dwarf |
| they | dwarf |
Perfect
| I | have dwarfed |
| you | have dwarfed |
| he;she;it | has dwarfed |
| we | have dwarfed |
| you | have dwarfed |
| they | have dwarfed |
Past
| I | dwarfed |
| you | dwarfed |
| he;she;it | dwarfed |
| we | dwarfed |
| you | dwarfed |
| they | dwarfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dwarfed |
| you | had dwarfed |
| he;she;it | had dwarfed |
| we | had dwarfed |
| you | had dwarfed |
| they | had dwarfed |
Future
| I | will dwarf |
| you | will dwarf |
| he;she;it | will dwarf |
| we | will dwarf |
| you | will dwarf |
| they | will dwarf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dwarfed |
| you | will have dwarfed |
| he;she;it | will have dwarfed |
| we | will have dwarfed |
| you | will have dwarfed |
| they | will have dwarfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dwarf |
| you | dwarf |
| he;she;it | dwarf |
| we | dwarf |
| you | dwarf |
| they | dwarf |
Perfect
| I | have dwarfed |
| you | have dwarfed |
| he;she;it | have dwarfed |
| we | have dwarfed |
| you | have dwarfed |
| they | have dwarfed |
Imperfect
| I | dwarfed |
| you | dwarfed |
| he;she;it | dwarfed |
| we | dwarfed |
| you | dwarfed |
| they | dwarfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dwarfed |
| you | had dwarfed |
| he;she;it | had dwarfed |
| we | had dwarfed |
| you | had dwarfed |
| they | had dwarfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dwarf |
| you | would dwarf |
| he;she;it | would dwarf |
| we | would dwarf |
| you | would dwarf |
| they | would dwarf |
Perfect
| I | would have dwarfed |
| you | would have dwarfed |
| he;she;it | would have dwarfed |
| we | would have dwarfed |
| you | would have dwarfed |
| they | would have dwarfed |
Imperative
| you | dwarf |
| we | Let's dwarf |
| you | dwarf |
Verbs conjugated like 'dwarf'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dwarf'
swarf,
adward,
award,
awarn,
barf,
bedwarf,
daff,
dare,
dark,
darn,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to be better than
- best, better, eclipse, exceed, excel, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outrival, outrun, outshadow, outshine, outstrip, outvie, overshadow, pass, put to shame, surpass, top, transcend, trump, upstage
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. dweorh, from P.Gmc. *dweraz, from PIE *dhwergwhos "something tiny." The mythological sense is from Ger., 1770. The verb meaning "to render dwarfish" is from 1626; that of "to cause to look small" is from 1850. The shift of the O.E. guttural at the end of the word to modern -f is typical (cf. enough, draft); O.E. pl. dweorgas became M.E. dwarrows, later leveled down to dwarfs. The use of dwarves for the legendary race is an innovation of J.R.R. Tolkien.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Germanic *dwergaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *dwerg
5. Old English dweorg
6. Middle English dwergh
7. English dwarf
8. From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
9. Cognate with Scots droich, dwerch (“dwarf, midget”); Old High German twerc (German, Luxembourgish Zwerg (“dwarf”)); Old Norse dvergr (Danish dværg (“dwarf, midget”), Faroese dvørgur (“dwarf”), Icelandic dvergur (“dwarf”), Norwegian Bokmål dverg (“dwarf”), Norwegian Nynorsk dverg, verg (“dwarf”), Swedish dvärg (“dwarf”)); Old Frisian dwirg (Saterland Frisian Dwärch (“dwarf”), West Frisian dwerch (“dwarf”)); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg (“dwarf”)); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg (“dwarf”)).
10. The Modern English noun has undergone complex phonetic changes. The form dwarf is the regular continuation of Old English dweorg, but the plural dweorgas would have given rise to dwarrows and the oblique stem dweorge- would have led to dwery. These forms are sometimes found as the nominative singular in Middle English texts and in English dialects. A parallel case is that of Old English burg giving burgh, borough, burrow, bury.
Sample Sentences
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The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
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The train bursts from Rusher Cutting Tunnel with explosive violence, the engine's exhaust soaring high into the air, but dwarfed by the mighty limestone cliffs on either side. [1960 April, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 225:]
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In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. [2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:]
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Bach dwarfs all other composers.
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At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk - into a race of beauties that seems almost another species [1710 July 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1710”, in The Spectator, number 98; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
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Even the most common moral ideas and affections […] would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. [1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry:]