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Shrunken

Shrunken Meaning & Definition
Shrunken Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Shrunken?

[adj] reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear"
[adj] reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
[adj] lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Shrunken: contracted | decreased | lean | reduced | shriveled | shrivelled | shrunk | thin | withered | wizen | wizened

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Shrunken In Webster's Dictionary

\Shrunk"en\, p. p. & a. from {Shrink}.

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