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Stunting

noun

The performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft. Synonyms: acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying.

Stunt

verb

(past & past part. stunted; pres. part. stunting)

Check the growth or development of.

Perform a stunt or stunts.

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"Stunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... evils of the latter, in the form of widespread illiteracy and defect, we should seek causes more deeply rooted than the enslavement of children. The cost to society is incalculable, as the National Child Labor Committee points out. "It is not only through the lowered power, the stunting and the moral degeneration of its individual members, but in actual expense, through the necessary provision for the human junk, created by premature employment, in poor-houses, hospitals, police and courts, ...

— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

... know at what point to draw the line. These limited enthusiasms may have an educative effect upon the persons who indulge them, but they may also have a stunting effect if they are pursued too long. A boy passes my window whistling shrill a stave of a popular song. He is obviously delighted with and intent upon his performance, and he is experiencing, no doubt, the artistic joy of creation; but if that boy goes on in life, ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... duty each towards himself, and each towards the whole of the human race. Each one of us should do some little part for the physical good of the race—health, strength, vigour. here is no harm therein to the soul: on the contrary, those who stunt their physical life are most certainly stunting their souls. ...

— The Story of My Heart • Richard Jefferies

... realize in the United States that we cannot spend all our annual earnings on living expenses and still have a surplus for fresh capital for new industrial enterprises. We are on the point of perceiving that we are cramping and stunting the future industrial expansion of the country by our personal extravagance. We shall soon really believe Mr. James J. Hill when he says that "every dollar unprofitably spent ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... he had reached the comforting twilight of the outer world. He served thereafter in the shop a full two years and had a beard coming—so the story runs—before he would again venture beyond the third turning of the passage; to the stunting of his scholarship, for the deeper books ...

— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks