DWARFING Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

dwarfing

verb

present participle of dwarf

as in suppressing

to hold back the normal growth of shrubs dwarfed by the lack of water

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Recent Examples of dwarfing The agency has more than 630,000 employees, dwarfing many Cabinet departments. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026 The Dodgers also have the highest luxury tax payroll at $430 million, dwarfing the Mets’ $363 million number. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Don’t be fooled by the film’s advertising, which features an image of Neeson’s scowling visage dwarfing Levi aiming an automatic weapon. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026 Through May, conservative activists had filed 43 anti-DEI shareholder proposals, dwarfing the number of proposals supporting DEI. — Scott M. Curran, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Paramount has promised to produce 30 movies a year between the two studios, dwarfing the output of any other legacy studio, and to adhere to a longer theatrical window. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026 Outside groups spent more than $63 million supporting Haley Stevens, a candidate backed by the establishment, dwarfing the amount spent on her opponent, a brash progressive named Abdul El-Sayed with a war chest some nine times smaller. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 5 Aug. 2026 But around half of its shares will be unlocked from now until December, dwarfing what’s currently available. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 16 July 2026 Fireworks, an enormous Ferris wheel dwarfing the Capitol dome, a proud white father directing his wife and daughter into the crowd and the future. — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

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Lampooning authority is even common in autocratic societies where governments spend large sums of money suppressing speech.

— Christopher von Rueden, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2026
This is economic capacity currently lost to suppressing yield across the labor market.

— Katica Roy, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of suppressing

Verb

Kean, who has voted against resolutions aimed at halting military action in Iran, defended the war.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
By halting those exports, the thinking goes, domestic diesel prices would drop due to a flood of fresh supply, lowering costs for farmers, commercial trucking companies and thousands of other businesses that rely on the fuel.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of halting

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Between terrorism and global warming and diminishing natural resources, the world is out of balance.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Basic tasks like summarization, translation and drafting offer diminishing differentiation as tools become widespread.

— Fabio Caversan, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminishing

Verb

But Moody’s says the fiscal pressures from aging emerge long before populations actually start shrinking.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Part of the reason for his town’s interest, Brule said, is the need to make up for shrinking tax revenues from Millstone, which experienced a decline in property values following deregulation.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of shrinking

Verb

Students are gathering and blocking access near the School of Political Science, while other students are joining the high school student protest movement and the blockades at high schools in Paris, Ile-de-France, France, on October 7, 2026.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Not far away, armed men had been occupying makeshift barricades, blocking roads and turning some drivers away.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of blocking

Verb

Even before the floods, malnutrition, child wasting and anaemia rates were high in Nepal, with one in four children nationwide affected by stunting.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
And the factors pushing people out of the labor force have implications beyond workers paying for everyday essentials, including stunting career trajectories and impacting long-term retirement savings.

— Sarah Jackson Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of stunting

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