"dwarfing" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dwarfings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dwarfing (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings)
  1. The situation where something is made to seem (relatively) small or unimportant. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dwarfing-en-noun-nFYXcb-5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dwarfing
  1. present participle and gerund of dwarf Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dwarf
    Sense id: en-dwarfing-en-verb-eXXDOJjT

Inflected forms

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "2011, Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses, A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, page 248:",
          "text": "Such intentional dwarfings of the human figure can carry different political valences, depending on the work that frames them.",
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        }
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      ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        }
      ],
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