stunt

stunt
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Stunt — 〈[ stʌ̣nt] m. 6〉 gefährliche Filmszene, die von einem Stuntman dargestellt wird ● einen Stunt drehen, spielen [zu engl. stunt „Kunststück“] * * * Stunt [stʌnt ], der; s, s [engl. stunt = Kunststück, Trick, H. u.]: gefährliches, akrobatisches… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • stunt — [stʌnt] noun [countable] disapproving MARKETING something that is done to attract people s attention to a product or company: • The companies turned the event into a publicity stunt. • They deliberately created a controversial commercial as a… …   Financial and business terms

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stunt — Sm gefährliche, akrobatische Aktion per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. stunt, dessen Herkunft nicht sicher geklärt ist.    Ebenso nndl. stunt, nschw. stuntman, nnorw. stunt. ✎ Carstensen 3 (1996), 1450f. englisch e …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • stunt — sb., et, s el. stunt, ene; lave et stunt; et politisk stunt …   Dansk ordbog

  • stunt — stunt1 [stunt] vt. [< dial., short and thick, stunted < ME, dull, stupid (with sense infl. by ON stuttr, short) < OE < IE * (s)teud < base * (s)teu , to strike > STOCK] 1. to check the growth or development of; dwarf 2. to… …   English World dictionary

  • 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stunt — 〈 [stʌ̣nt] m.; Gen.: s, Pl.: s〉 gefährliche Filmszene, die von einem Stuntman dargestellt wird; einen Stunt drehen, spielen [Etym.: zu engl. stunt »Kunststück«] …   Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • stunt — Ⅰ. stunt [1] ► VERB ▪ retard the growth or development of. ORIGIN from dialect stunt «foolish, stubborn», from Germanic. Ⅱ. stunt [2] ► NOUN 1) an action displaying spectacular skill and daring …   English terms dictionary

  • stunt´ed|ly — stunt|ed «STUHN tihd», adjective. 1. checked in growth or development; undeveloped; dwarfed: »a knot of stunted hollies (Thomas Hardy). 2. disproportionately or abnormally short or small. 3. (of growth or development) checked or arrested.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • stunt|ed — «STUHN tihd», adjective. 1. checked in growth or development; undeveloped; dwarfed: »a knot of stunted hollies (Thomas Hardy). 2. disproportionately or abnormally short or small. 3. (of growth or development) checked or arrested. –stunt´ed|ly,… …   Useful english dictionary

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