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Stunted vs Starving - What's the difference?

stunted | starving |

As verbs the difference between stunted and starving

is that stunted is (stunt) while starving is .

As an adjective stunted

is prevented from growing or developing.

As a noun starving is

starvation.

stunted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stunt)
    • The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • prevented from growing or developing
  • (medicine) low height-for-age (for a person).

    • Related terms

    * (medicine) wasted

    Anagrams

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    starving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • starvation
  • * 1868 , Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre