Stunted vs Stented - What's the difference?
stunted | stented |
(stunt)
prevented from growing or developing
(medicine) low height-for-age (for a person).
(stent)
A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
* 2006
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
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, year=1905
, year_published=2009
, edition=Reprint
, editor=
, author=Annie Hamilton Donnell
, title=Rebecca Marry
, chapter=The Hundred and Oneth
(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
* Spenser
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
As verbs the difference between stunted and stented
is that stunted is past tense of stunt while stented is past tense of stent.As an adjective stunted
is prevented from growing or developing.stunted
English
Verb
(head)- The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.
Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*stented
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*stent
English
(wikipedia stent)Etymology 1
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.Noun
(en noun)New York Times
- Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.
Etymology 2
See stint.Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent , and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided. }}
Verb
(en verb)- Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.