Word Frequency
shrunken (ˈʃrʌŋkən
)
Definitions
verb
- a past participle of shrink
adjective
- usually prenominal reduced in size ⇒
a shrunken head
shrink (ʃrɪŋk
)
Definitions
verb
Word forms: shrinks, shrinking, shrank, shrunk, shrunk, shrunken
- to contract or cause to contract as from wetness, heat, cold, etc
- to become or cause to become smaller in size
- intr often foll by from
- to recoil or withdraw ⇒
to shrink from the sight of blood
- to feel great reluctance (at) ⇒
to shrink from killing an animal
- to recoil or withdraw ⇒
noun
- the act or an instance of shrinking
- (slang) a psychiatrist
Derived Forms
ˈshrinkable adjectiveˈshrinker noun
ˈshrinking adjective
ˈshrinkingly adverb
Word Origin
Old English scrincan; related to Old Norse skrokkr torso, Old Swedish skrunkin wrinkled, Old Norse hrukka a crease, Icelandic skrukka wrinkled womanTranslations for 'shrunken'
- British English: shrunken Someone or something that is shrunken has become smaller than they used to be.She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.ˈʃrʌŋkən ADJECTIVE
- Arabic: مُتَقَلِّص
- Brazilian Portuguese: encolhido encolhida
- Chinese: 已萎缩的
- Croatian: smanjen smanjena
- Czech: sraženýpraním
- Danish: krympet
- Dutch: gekrompen
- European Spanish: encogido encogida
- Finnish: kutistunut
- French: rétréci
- German: eingelaufen
- Greek: ζαρωμένος ζαρωμένη
- Italian: ristretto ristretta
- Japanese: 縮んだ
- Korean: 줄어든
- Norwegian: krympet
- Polish: skurczony skurczona
- Portuguese: encolhido encolhida
- Romanian: micșorat micșorat, micșorată, micșorați, micșorate
- Russian: сморщившийся сморщившаяся
- Spanish: encogido encogida
- Swedish: krympt
- Thai: ที่หดลง
- Turkish: kısalmış
- Ukrainian: зменшений
- Vietnamese: bị co lại
Example Sentences Including 'shrunken'
All appeared shrunken by their imprisonment, according to a reporter allowed into the courtroom.New Zealand Herald (2004)
Between 1945 and 1989 Germany, divided on itself, and within shrunken frontiers, was a very different country.The Global Marketplace
But even that once-mighty chest seemed somehow shrunken , diminished.Here Be Dragons
Football culture is never comfortable with the idea of a man shrunken by fear.Times, Sunday Times (2001)
One tribe are frantically sticking pins in an Andy Dow doll after waging their entire stock of shrunken heads at 1/ 2 on a Rangers win.Sun, News of the World (1999)
Planetasia, the core of Kar's shrunken empire, hasn't done too well for itself either.Business Today (2002)
Tall, brawny, with the swollen muscles and shrunken brain of the committed body builder.A Nasty Dose of Death
There were no girls, just a shrunken French alcoholic in a red shirt four sizes too big for him.BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)
Welcome to a world of shrunken heads that talk, where books about monsters actually bite and shacks shriek with haunted might.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2004)
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