Meaning of SHRUNKEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'shrungkun
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | contracted, decreased, lean, reduced, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunk, thin, withered, wizen, wizened |
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| | Definition: | | \Shrunk"en\,
p. p. & a. from {Shrink}.
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