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BNC: 22190 COCA: 20066

shrunken

shrunken /ˈʃrʌŋkən/ adjective
shrunken
/ˈʃrʌŋkən/
adjective
Learner's definition of SHRUNKEN
: made smaller or shorter皱缩的;干瘪的
BNC: 22190 COCA: 20066

shrunken

adjective

shrunk·​en ˈshrəŋ-kən How to pronounce shrunken (audio)
ˈsrəŋ-
: reduced in size : made less or smaller
After he'd lost nearly thirty pounds, his shrunken face disclosed itself to us as a replica of my elderly grandmother's … Philip Roth
… I had … a closet filled with shrunken clothes I'd blasted in the dryer … Caitlin Moscatello
… minerals and salts are more and more concentrated in the shrunken stream as it evaporates under the southwestern Sun. Jonathan Weiner
A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that's so slow, you'd have laughed at it in 2007. David Pogue
Yet the reality is that the public finances are going to be in an even bigger mess and the economy more shrunken than in the economic crisis of 2008/09. Ross Clark
… millions of people are unable to afford mortgage payments on homes with shrunken values. Arthur Delaney
The shrunken national attention span that television has fostered will probably reduce significantly the readership for this massive biography … Harry F. Waters

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of shrink entry 1

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shrunken was in the 15th century
BNC: 22190 COCA: 20066

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