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shrunk

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vb. (en-past of: shrink )

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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. ...

Usage examples of shrunk.

I observed that the protoplasm had shrunk a little from the walls of the single elongated cells forming the pedicels.

Many of the points on the infolded rims also had their lining of protoplasm similarly shrunk, and contained spherical granules of hyaline matter.

He had once been in J Company, but a year of battles had shrunk the Faulconer Legion from ten to eight companies, and even those companies were now understrength.

The corpses had been shrunk by the fierce heat into black, brittle manikins that smelt disturbingly of roasted pork.

By this time a few rather large, transparent, globular masses appeared within the upper ends of the pedicels, and the protoplasm lining their walls had shrunk a little.

In the third bladder, the quadrifids included distinctly visible granules, and the primordial utricle was a little shrunk after only 8 hrs.

In the second specimen, the primordial utricles were considerably shrunk and brownish after 2 hrs.

The utricles of the oblong glands had shrunk very little, but their contents were somewhat aggregated.

Two other summits, with their glands colourless and their utricles not shrunk, were treated with the same solution of urea.

Many of the oblong glands were brown, and these, as well as others which still remained colourless, had their utricles more or less shrunk, some of them including small aggregated masses of matter.

If glands which have already become brown, with their primordial utricles shrunk, are irrigated with one of the effective solutions, they are not acted on, or only slightly and slowly.

He had a brief but horribly detailed mental image of Sally and himself trapped inside a kitchen that had abruptly shrunk to the size of a shoebox.

Carolinus had shrunk the sack of jewels that was his passport to a size he could swallow.

New clothes usually appeared mysteriously like this at Thirst Hold, just when his seams were bursting or his sleeves had shrunk halfway to his elbows.

Unlike poor Saryon, who had shrunk within himself to the point of shrinking from sight altogether, the Bishop became bloated.