stunting
IPA: stˈʌntɪŋ
noun
- (informal) The act of performing stunts or ostentatiously showing off
- (medicine) Stunted growth, often caused by chronic malnutrition.
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Examples of "stunting" in Sentences
- It's no coincidence that Glenn Beck is "stunting" NOW.
- Which hipster will start "stunting" their Cushman first?
- Chronic malnutrition - also known as stunting - affects 39 percent of all Liberians, and
- What we are beginning to notice is what we call stunting of children … which means they are not eating well enough to be bigger than their parents, "AbuZayd added.
- What we are beginning to notice is what we call stunting of children ... which means they are not eating well enough to be bigger than their parents, "AbuZayd added.
- Chronic malnutrition - also known as stunting - affects 39 percent of all Liberians, and 6.2 percent are acutely malnourished or "wasted", according to Ministry of Health figures.
- Over the years, Discovery has experimented with other types of television "stunting" - where a station diverts from its regular programming - yet Bunting said that there would never be another animal week like
- Among children born to mothers reporting any violence, nearly 42 percent were underweight, about 13 percent were undernourished, and more than 55 percent had an impaired growth pattern known as stunting by the age of 2 years.
- But height-stunting is a function of outright malnutrition, something which rather few Americans actually suffer (yes, the poorest of the poor, and Native Americans on reservations, do experience this – I’m not trying to sugar coat reality, just pointing out that middle class Americans do not experience the sorts of calorie and protein deprivation that stunts growth in children).