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to stunt
verb
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
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They try to stunt your growth.
Is the line about to stunt?
But in Europe, the weak economy continues to stunt sales.
Now mounting household debt threatens to stunt it.
It's like they want to stunt your development".
There is nothing more likely to stunt your creativity than to think of walls between genres.
You don't want this to grow like a weed, but you don't want to stunt the growth either.
And coffee, once said to stunt growth, was now associated with lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and, for some, Parkinson's.
Blanc believed that the competitive capitalism then developing in France tended to stunt the human personality, pitting one man against another and driving the weaker to the wall.
There's his sneaker line with Nike: "Hold up, I ain't trying to stunt, man/But the Yeezys jumped over the Jumpman".
Diesel particulates enter the lungs and bloodstream; they have been shown to stunt children's brains, and have been linked to autism, heart disease and cancer.
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