[f. STUNT v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb.
1835. Ure, Philos. Manuf., 23. That cramping of the faculties,… that stunting of the frame,… cannot … occur under the equable distribution of industry.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 134. The chief question is the degree of bony deformity or stunting of structure which will remain.
1911. Daily News, 3 May, 3. The man whose education has been years of ‘herding’ in gigantic classes … often has suffered from intellectual stunting.
