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shrunken

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shrunk·en  (shrngkn)
v.
A past participle of shrink.

shrunken [ˈʃrʌŋkən]
vb
a past participle of shrink
adj
(usually prenominal) reduced in size
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Adj.1.shrunken - 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 grey hair"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
2.shrunken - 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"
decreased, reduced - made less in size or amount or degree
Translations
shrunken [ˈʃrʌŋkən] ADJencogido

shrunken [ˈʃrʌŋkən] adjratatiné(e)

shrunken
adj(ein)geschrumpft; old persongeschrumpft; profits, savingszusammengeschrumpft

shrunken [ˈʃrʌŋkn] adj (body) → rinsecchito/a

shrunken 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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And so I am but bones, now, with a rough and frowsy skin humped and cornered upon my shrunken body - that skin which was once so glossy, that skin which she loved to stroke with her hand.
But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.
Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
 
 
 
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