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US
/ˈʃɹəŋkən/
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[ UK /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ ]
[ UK /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
he looked shriveled and ill
a shrunken old man
a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws
a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
the old woman's shriveled skin
he did well despite his withered arm -
reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
our shriveled receipts during the storm
the dollar's shrunken buying power
as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
How To Use shrunken In A Sentence
- Kitteh haz shrunken fish-hed neklace, a sharkskin war clowk adn fish blud war-paint. …and den a bear came - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- As she embraced him, she felt his shrunken arms and shuddered; the muscular vibrance that had always been the essence of his personality was completely absent. Empire of Dreams
- My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
- In a more advance stage, an atretic follicle is easily distinguished without examination of its internal structure by its deformed or shrunken appearance.
- The intense painting shows three old women with shrunken faces and clad in white.
- On the 6th week, he had a check-up and the doctor said it was unbelievable, but the cancer had shrunken, and was now operable, and that they would take out one lung.
- Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look. Times, Sunday Times
- Shrunken and mean the spirit fails Like old snow falling from the crags And priest and pedagog compete With nostrums for the age that ails, The Eye of Zeitoon
- The two traits correlate with each other—geophilic, wings shrunken—but they don’t correlate with exposure to wind. The Song of The Dodo
- Also available for $14.98 was a grey and black version of the shrunken vest Victorya put over her design, but I passed on that, because really, for most of us, "shrunken" is just a code word for "impractical. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch