Crossword clues for shrunken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrunken \Shrunk"en\, p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. 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. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]
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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
--Spenser.I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
--Bacon.Against this fire do I shrink up.
--Shak.And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
--Dryden.All the boards did shrink.
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To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right.
--Pope.They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
--Jowett (Thucyd.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gescruncan, past participle adjective from shrink (v.).
Wiktionary
reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled. v
(past participle of shrink English)
WordNet
n. a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker]
v. wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, wither]
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]
reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: reduce]
become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]
decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: shrivel]
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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened]
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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled]
reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear" [syn: shrunk]
See shrink
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.