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Meanings of scrubby in English
Synonyms
Examples for "stunted"
Examples for "stunted"
1
But when I try to speak, the words come out choked, stunted.
2
It's still a stunted bank with a lot of problems, Hendler said.
3
People with stunted psychological development don't understand how to conduct healthy relationships.
4
My fashion sense is somewhat stunted, but I still had to wonder.
5
The queerly stunted trees dotted the sloping sides of this great desert.
1
Mary took Billy's scrawny shoulders in her hand, saying, Come on, sweetie.
2
My arms seemed particularly scrawny hanging out from beneath the short sleeves.
3
Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.
4
The picture will capture the moment forever, he shrugged his scrawny shoulders.
5
The long scrawny throat worked convulsively, the hands gripped each other savagely.
Usage of scrubby in English
1
To the east another flat-topped range; country between also scrubby; apparently open.
2
The country in general scrubby, with occasional reaches of open forest land.
3
They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
4
The country was thinly wooded in some places and scrubby at others.
5
At four miles got to the rise, which is a scrubby sand-hill.
6
Our path today came over six miles of unavailable barren scrubby ridges.
7
The valley I now traversed became somewhat scrubby with mallee and triodia.
8
We dismounted and tethered him to a scrubby pine, continuing on foot.
9
The first mile of our journey was over low scrubby ironstone hills.
10
He gazed across the shimmering desert to a ridge of scrubby hills.
11
The rich forests shrink slowly into thin tracts of scrubby, poverty-stricken vegetation.
12
A forest of pale, scrubby ferns ran down almost to the beach.
13
Decency is driven to the distant hills, crowned with their scrubby oaks.
14
She could barely see the scrubby trail that wound into the desert.
15
He raised the window shade and squinted at the sun-baked scrubby terrain.
16
The scrubby gorse bushes were shivering but there was almost no wind.
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Scrubby through the time
Scrubby across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common