"stunt development" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is preventing or slowing down progress or growth. For example: The company's decision to cut their research budget may stunt development of their new product.
With such a large market position, the critics say, Universal could effectively dictate terms to technology companies — even big ones like Apple — and stunt development.
New restrictions on club teams handed down by the CFA, while meant to help the Chinese game grow, stunt development while they take effect.
The council doesn't have the power to stunt development, she said.
Even a small dose, if it ends up in a child's bloodstream, can stunt development and cause lifelong learning problems, doctors say.
Over time, they can distort and stunt development of brain matter, going so far as to interfere with the way a child's body translates its own genetic code into new neural pathways.
Other male flowers developed stamens, however these appeared to have stunted development and never produced pollen.
Because stunted growth in the first months of a child's life means stunted development of the brain and thus, of cognitive capacity.
Anaemia is particularly severe, and iron deficiency is a common, damaging child health and stunting development.
Others think it stunts development.Second, orphanages can prevent children living with what family they have.
In the meantime many children in London have faced stunted development of their lungs, and 690,000 Londoners continue to suffer from asthma.
Contemporary artists in neighboring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh benefited from art academies set up over the years by the British Raj, but Nepal's isolation stunted development.
