dwarf

n. abnormally short human, pygmy, midget; small man with magical powers (Folklore)

v. reduce, minimize, miniaturize, make small

DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with ELF, although it is independent of object file formats. The name is a pun on "ELF" that has no official meaning but "may be an acronym for 'Debug With Attributed Record Format'".
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A dwarf is a short, stocky humanoid creature in Norse mythology as well as other Germanic mythologies, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing games. The plural form dwarfs has been traced to the 17th century. The alternate plural dwarves has been recorded in the early 18th century, but was not generally accepted until used by philologist J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy novel The Hobbit. Neither spelling represents the regular phonetic development of the Old English plural dweorgas, namely dwarrows; rather, they descend from a new plural formed in  Middle English from the singular stem. Similarly, the old inherited plural dwarrows acquired a singular dwarrow. Although dwarrow has passed from the language, both dwarfs and dwarves are in current use. Many grammarians prefer dwarfs, many fantasists prefer dwarves. The form dwarfs is generally used for real people affected by dwarfism; the form dwarves is used for the mythical people described by Tolkien and others.
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Noun
1. a person who is abnormally small
(synonym) midget, nanus
(hypernym) small person
(hyponym) primordial dwarf, hypoplastic dwarf, true dwarf, normal dwarf
2. a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
(synonym) gnome
(hypernym) fairy, faery, faerie, sprite
(hyponym) Nibelung
Verb
1. make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarves that of last year"
(synonym) shadow, overshadow
(hypernym) dominate, command, overlook, overtop
(derivation) midget, nanus
2. check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
(hypernym) stunt
(derivation) midget, nanus

(v. t.)
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
  

(v. i.)
To become small; to diminish in size.
  

(n.)
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.