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Shrunken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. A past participle of shrink.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled.

v. Past participle of shrink

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

p. p. & a. from shrink.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having shrunk; shriveled up; contracted: as, a shrunken limb.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

adj. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

Word Usage

"Also available for $14.98 was a grey and black version of the shrunken vest Victorya put over her design, but I passed on that, because really, for most of us, "shrunken" is just a code word for "impractical.""

Equivalent

lean thin decreased reduced

Variant

shrink

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

contracted

Verb Stem

shrink

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Duncan drunken sunken