[f. BE- 2 + DWARF.] Intensive of DWARF v. Hence Bedwarfed ppl. a.

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1633.  Donne, Poems (1650), 207. ’Tis shrinking … hath thus, In minde and body both bedwarfed us.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., 334. Some big Mastiff or bedwarfed Nag.

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1678.  Norris, Misc. (1699), 283. Self-esteem … bedwarfs all our Excellencies.

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