arrested development

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arrested development

noun arrested developments

  1. countable, uncountable A state where development has stopped prematurely. 1835–1836, Benjamin Phillips, "Bladder, Abnormal Anatomy", in Robert Bentley Todd (ed.), The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, Volume I (A–DEA), Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, page 390, There are upon record a certain number of cases in which two or more urinary bladders are said to

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@misc{arrested_development_2026,
  title = {arrested development},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/arrested%20development},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}