stunt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
  2. noun a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
  3. verb check the growth or development of
    • You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles
  4. verb perform a stunt or stunts

WordNet

Stunt transitive verb
Etymology
See Stint.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stunted ; present participle & verbal noun Stunting
Definitions
  1. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
    When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke.
Stunt noun
Definitions
  1. A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
  2. Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

Webster 1913