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