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[ shruhng-kuhn ] / ˈʃrʌŋ kən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shrunken ON THESAURUS.COM
verba past participle of shrink. adjectivecontracted or lessened in size, extent, or scope: Many state agencies are operating with a shrunken workforce. OTHER WORDS FROM shrunkenun·shrunk·en, adjectiveWords nearby shrunkenshrub layer, shrug, shrug off, shrug one's shoulders, shrunk, shrunken, sht., shtetl, shtg., shtick, shtoom Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shrunkenAnd I like the way you carried your mic pack like it was a shrunken head. A Reality TV Competition About Reading? Literary Death Match Wants a Show|Melissa Goldstein|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST I miss the strife His shrunken staff, his hungry wife Inflame chafe! The Song of Newt Gingrich: From Longshot To Hotshot To No Shot||April 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST So says Thomas Hobbes, whose definition of all laughter illuminates those moments when we smugly parade past the shrunken giants. GOP Primaries Provide a Feast for Our Schadenfreude Appetite|Eric G. Wilson|January 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde. How Sherlock Holmes Took on the Capitalists|Ian Klaus|December 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST
One sweater, in particular, a short-sleeve, shrunken crewneck, was charmingly marked by teardrop-shaped dollops of teal blue. Milan’s Day-Glo Exuberance|Robin Givhan|September 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST All the fluids of the eye escaped leaving it sightless and shrunken, and so it remained ever after. Revolutionary Reader|Sophie Lee Foster Had she shrunken since he left her or was he grown so much huskier with the out of door life? The Search|Grace Livingston Hill Allow it to remain in this way until it has shrunken sufficiently from the pan, and then lift off the pan. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4|Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences Pani turned her head mournfully from side to side, and the shrunken lips made no reply. A Little Girl in Old Detroit|Amanda Minnie Douglas The man was shrunken, knock-kneed, eccentric in dress and manner, and leaned heavily on his cane. A Tale of the Tow-Path|Homer Greene
British Dictionary definitions for shrunken
verba past participle of shrink adjective(usually prenominal) reduced in sizea shrunken head Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shrunkendry, withered, dwindled, wilted, contracted, diminished, shriveled, wrinkled |