STUNTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stunting mean? 

• STUNTING (noun)
  The noun STUNTING has 1 sense:

1. the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft

  Familiarity information: STUNTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

acrobatics; aerobatics; stunt flying; stunting

Hypernyms ("stunting" is a kind of...):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stunting"):

spin; tailspin (rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral)

Derivation:

stunt (perform a stunt or stunts)

 Context examples 

The fact is that air pollution is stunting our brains, even before we are born," said Drisse.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

Relative dairy and egg prices are strongly associated with international variation in stunting rates, consistent with an extensive literature linking dairy consumption to linear growth in young children.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

The study found that the affordability of healthy and unhealthy foods was strongly associated with nutrition outcomes, including child stunting, and concluded that more research was needed on how to alter pricing to improve diets in both rich and poor countries.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)