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shrunk

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shrunk  (shrngk)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of shrink.

shrunk [ʃrʌŋk]
vb
a past participle and past tense of shrink
Translations
shrunk, shrunken shrink
shrunk متقلص sražený krympet eingelaufen ζαρωμένος encogido kutistunut rétréci smanjen ristretto 縮んだ 줄어든 gekrompen krympet skurczony encolhido сморщившийся krympt ที่หดลง kısalmış bị co lại 已萎缩的


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Their pale faces seemed to have shrunk to half their natural size.
No wonder his thoughts were still with his loom and his money when he made his journeys through the fields and the lanes to fetch and carry home his work, so that his steps never wandered to the hedge-banks and the lane-side in search of the once familiar herbs: these too belonged to the past, from which his life had shrunk away, like a rivulet that has sunk far down from the grassy fringe of its old breadth into a little shivering thread, that cuts a groove for itself in the barren sand.
He decided to omit them, and then, if the whole truth must be confessed, his indolence shrunk from the task of rewriting the three lost chapters.
 
 
 
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