shrunken
shrunken
Definition
shrunken (s̸hruŋ′kən)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
adjective
contracted in size; shriveled
shrunken
Synonyms
shrunken
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- head: Making a shrunken head was done by removing the skin from the skull.
- village: The remains of a shrunken village are situated immediately to the west of the church.
- version: It is a shrunken version of the Bluewater shopping center, only with gutter to gutter carpeting.
- form: Normative theory in both cases is reduced to the shrunken form of applied ethics - moral principles unsuccessfully imposed on politics.
- FDP: No longer will the CDU be leaving a shrunken FDP as the voice of business and market reform in Germany.
- face: In that crumpled air of shrunken faces and gray shriveled hair with the watching windows misting?
