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shrunken

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gescruncan , past participle adjective from shrink (v.).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She looked frail and shrunken . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her head was shrunken under a tight-fitting felt hat. ▪ His shrunken skin becomes filled out and loses its coldness and pallor. ▪ It was a shrunken Frank, whose ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled. v (past participle of shrink English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrank or Shrunk p. p. Shrunk or Shrunken , but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking .] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. ...

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Usage examples of shrunken.

Slowly, her world had shrunken until the health of her horse and the blessedly empty path behind encompassed her entire world.

Black Death was, of course, a shrunken population, which, owing to wars, brigandage, and recurrence of the plague, declined even further by the end of the 14th century.

They had four tiny arms, looking deformed and shrunken, and two opposing pairs of ropy, coiling tentacles with prehensile tips.

His body was matte-black except where the dusty gray of scars seamed it, a gaunt thing of massive bones and muscles shrunken and knotted and still powerful enough to crack teak beams.

There was an urgency in the clean, high notes and also an understanding, as if Soli well knew the agony of shrunken bellies and freezing, bleeding paws.

Franklin bouquets, and birds of paradise, and the Battle of Gettysburg, and miniature Japanese gardens, and even a shrunken human head, all stoppered up in bottles.

Beside her Marie Bain was slowly pegging out several tent-like black corsets and shrunken stripy stockings, the cooks body language clearly indicating that she regarded guest laundry as a task not within her job description.

But while he had been immersed in his memories it had thinned to a rill, then a trickle, then flat land cracked and shrunken in the sun.

There he was greeted by the parliamentary member, the representatives of the local council, various trembling beadles and burghers, and a squad of shrunken, bemedalled regimental pensioners in their frayed crimson tunics, ready for one final war.

It was by far the brightest light in the sky, except for the chill shrunken golfball of the Sun behind them, but it still showed no disk to the naked eye.

Shrunken flat-roofed ranches and narrow Cape Cods were clumped on smaller, less-landscaped lots.

The roadway had fallen into the shrunken Dayton River, now not much more than a creek, but the walkway had repaired itself and though narrow it had a railing on one side.

Her shrunken bones were bundled in soft green furs like the carpeting, only of a lighter, more delicate shade and much fluffier and downier, as if her robe were made from an unborn star-animal of the mammoth breed which had provided the enormous rug.

Sandy, who had enjoyed the company of a good many long-legged women during his days in the fleshpots of Ealing, ousted the big-bellied beardies and turned the Shrunken Head into a proper music venue.

Faebya had been watching them, sitting apart and leaning back on his hands flung behind him, his organ shrunken only a little and still dribbling.