Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dwarf \Dwarf\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dwarfed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dwarfing}.]
   To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep
   small; to stunt. --Addison.

         Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . .
         would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a
         spiritual background.                    --J. C.
                                                  Shairp.