dwarfing

English

Verb

dwarfing

1. present participle and gerund of dwarf

Noun

dwarfing (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfings)

1. 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.