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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Shrunken \Shrunk"en\,
     p. p. & a. from Shrink.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. p. Shrunk
     or Shrunken, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
     participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking.] [OE.
     shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
     and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
     to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]
     1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
        into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
        become compacted.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And on a broken reed he still did stay
              His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
              lay.                                  --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
              will shrink or draw into less room.   --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Against this fire do I shrink up.     --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
                                                    --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              All the boards did shrink.            --Coleridge.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
        from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              What happier natures shrink at with affright,
              The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
              from the task.                        --Jowett
                                                    (Thucyd.)
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
        or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. p. Shrunk
     or Shrunken, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
     participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking.] [OE.
     shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
     and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
     to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]
     1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
        into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
        become compacted.
  
              And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble
              steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
              I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
              will shrink or draw into less room.   --Bacon.
  
              Against this fire do I shrink up.     --Shak.
  
              And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
              All the boards did shrink.            --Coleridge.
  
     2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
        from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
  
              What happier natures shrink at with affright, The
              hard inhabitant contends is right.    --Pope.
  
              They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
              from the task.                        --Jowett
                                                    (Thucyd.)
  
     3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
        or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Shrunken \Shrunk"en\,
     p. p. & a. from Shrink.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  shrink
       n : a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist,
            head-shrinker]
       v 1: wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried
            and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, wither]
       2: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
          showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch,
           funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]
       3: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink
          the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: reduce]
       4: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The
          balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]
       5: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank";
          "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
          [syn: shrivel]
       [also: shrunken, shrunk, shrank]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  shrunken
       adj 1: 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 gray hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled,
               withered, wizen, wizened]
       2: 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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled]
       3: reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress
          was entirely too tight to wear" [syn: shrunk]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  shrunken
       See shrink

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  shrunken
     a.
     reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
     vb.
     (past participle of en shrink nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  shrunken
     a.
     reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
     vb.
     (past participle of en shrink nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  shrunken
     a.
     reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
     vb.
     (past participle of en shrink nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  shrunken
     a.
     reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
     vb.
     (past participle of en shrink nocat=1)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  منكمش

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ 
  свит, съсухрен
  reduced in size as a result of shrinkage

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ 
  smrštěný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  eingegangen, eingelaufen  [textil.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  geschrinkt 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  geschrumpft, zusammengezogen, eingefallen, geschwunden 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  verkleinert 

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  Shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ 
  1. सिकुड़ा हुआ
        "Shrunken papaya."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/
  1. összeaszott
  2. összezsugorodott
  3. összement
  4. összeugrott

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  shrunken /ˈʃrʌŋkən/ 
    skurczony

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  shrunken /ʃɹˈʌŋkən/ 
  skrumpnad
  reduced in size as a result of shrinkage

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈʃɹəŋkən/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrunken":
     Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, abated, ablated, atrophied,
     attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed,
     contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted,
     desiccated, diminished, dissipated, dried-up, dropped, dumpy,
     dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciated, eroded,
     expended, fallen, forfeit, forfeited, gone, incipient,
     irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower,
     lowered, meager, midget, miniaturized, nanoid, out the window,
     papery, parched, parchmenty, preshrunk, pygmy, reduced, retrenched,
     rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scaled-down, scraggy, scrubby,
     sear, sere, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk,
     smaller, squandered, squat, stunted, thin, undersize, undersized,
     used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened,
     weazened, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn,
     worn away, wrinkled
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 缩小的
     n.
     vbl. shrink的过去分词

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