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shrunken Definition

shrunken (s̸hruŋkən)

intransitive verb, transitive verb

shrink

adjective

contracted in size; shriveled

shrunken Synonyms

shrunken

modif.

withdrawn, withered, dwindled, contracted, shriveled; see also dry 1, wrinkled.

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?

Browse dictionary entries near shrunken

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