'Stunt' definitions:
Definition of 'stunt'
From: WordNet
noun
A difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
noun
A creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
verb
Check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles"
verb
Perform a stunt or stunts
Definition of 'Stunt'
From: GCIDE
- Stunt \Stunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.] [See Stint.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stunt'
From: GCIDE
- Stunt \Stunt\, n.
- 1. A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stunt'
From: GCIDE
- Stunt \Stunt\, n. [Cf. Stint a task.]
- 1. A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. [Colloq.]
- An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity. --The Bookman.
- He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming. --L. Hutton. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. an unusual action performed to gain public attention; as, a publicity stunt. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'stunt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- adventure,
- arrest,
- bank,
- blow,
- bob,
- boil down,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- caper,
- capsulize,
- characterization,
- check,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- coup,
- crab,
- crop,
- curb,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- dealings,
- deed,
- delimit,
- dido,
- dip,
- dock,
- doing,
- doings,
- dwarf,
- effort,
- elide,
- end,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- epitomize,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- feather,
- fishtail,
- foreshorten,
- gag,
- gest,
- go,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hamper,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- hinder,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hold back,
- impair,
- impede,
- impersonation,
- job,
- limit,
- loop,
- maneuver,
- measure,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- move,
- mow,
- mummery,
- nip,
- operation,
- overacting,
- overt act,
- pantomiming,
- passage,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playacting,
- playing,
- plow,
- poll,
- pollard,
- porpoise,
- portrayal,
- proceeding,
- production,
- projection,
- prune,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- push down,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- representation,
- res gestae,
- restrict,
- retard,
- retrench,
- roll,
- runty,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- slapstick,
- slow,
- snub,
- spin,
- spiral,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- step,
- stop,
- stroke,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- suppress,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- taking a role,
- telescope,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trick,
- trim,
- truncate,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- undulate,
- work,
- works,
- yaw