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| stunt flier
| stunt flying
| stunt kite
| stunt man
| stunt pilot
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stunt has 2 senses
- stunt(n = noun.act) Array - a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention; Array is a kind of effort, exploit, feat
- stunt(n = noun.animal) Array - a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth; Array is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
has particulars: russian roulette, acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt
Derived form verb stunt2
Derived form verb stunt1
Verb stunt has 2 senses
- stunt(v = verb.social) Array - check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles" is one way to hinder, impede
- stunt(v = verb.creation) Array - perform a stunt or stunts; Array is one way to do, execute, perform
Derived form noun stunt2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun stunt1, noun stunting1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
stunt, v. t. [See Stint.].
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. [1913 Webster]
"When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation."
[1913 Webster]
stunt, n.
- A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. [1913 Webster]
- Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber. [1913 Webster]
stunt, n. [Cf. Stint a task.].
- A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat."An extraordinary man does three or four different “stunts” with remarkable dexterity.""He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- an unusual action performed to gain public attention; as, a publicity stunt. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stunt, v.tr.
1 retard the growth or development of.
2 dwarf, cramp.
1 retard the growth or development of.
2 dwarf, cramp.
Derivative
stuntedness n.
stunt, n. & v.
--n.
1 something unusual done to attract attention.
2 a trick or daring manoeuvre.
3 a display of concentrated energy.
--v.intr. perform stunts, esp. aerobatics.
--n.
1 something unusual done to attract attention.
2 a trick or daring manoeuvre.
3 a display of concentrated energy.
--v.intr. perform stunts, esp. aerobatics.
Idiom
stunt man a man employed to take an actor's place in performing dangerous stunts.
Etymology
orig. unkn.: first used in 19th-c. US college athletics
THESAURUS
stunt
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, acting, action, adventure, arrest, bank, blow, bob, boil down, buffoonery, business, caper, capsulize, characterization, check, clip, compress, condense, contract, coup, crab, crop, curb, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dealings, deed, delimit, dido, dip, dock, doing, doings, dwarf, effort, elide, end, endeavor, enterprise, epitomize, exploit, fait accompli, feat, feather, fishtail, foreshorten, gag, gest, go, ham, hammy acting, hamper, hand, handiwork, hinder, hoke, hokum, hold back, impair, impede, impersonation, job, limit, loop, maneuver, measure, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, move, mow, mummery, nip, operation, overacting, overt act, pantomiming, passage, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, plow, poll, pollard, porpoise, portrayal, proceeding, production, projection, prune, pull out, pull up, push down, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, representation, res gestae, restrict, retard, retrench, roll, runty, shave, shear, shorten, sideslip, skid, slapstick, slow, snub, spin, spiral, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, step, stop, stroke, sum up, summarize, suppress, synopsize, take in, taking a role, telescope, thing, thing done, tour de force, transaction, trick, trim, truncate, turn, undertaking, undulate, work, works, yawROGET THESAURUS
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Shortness
VB be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten (in drawing).
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