shrunken English

Meaning shrunken meaning

What does shrunken mean?

shrunken

— adjective (= shriveled, shrivelled) 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

— adjective (= shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened) 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 grey hair

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shrunken English » English

shriveled

shrunk

shrivelled

deflated

contracted

wrinkly

wizened

wizen

withered

fallen

wrinkled

sunken

sunk

slack

shrink

scrubby

runty

rugose

lank

huddled

depressed

deflate

become flabby

Topics shrunken topics

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States Big

Small

• What words describe something that has been made small?
  shrunken

States Big Long

Short, not long

• What words describe something that has been made short?
  shortened abbreviated abridged compressed condensed contracted shriveled shrunk shrunken

States Big Long

Short, not tall

• What words describe something that has been made short?
  shortened shrunken

Person Healthy Disabled

Birth defect

• What kinds of abnormalities are there?
  albino bowlegged flatfooted humpbacked withered arm shrunken arm harelip cleft palate cerebral palsy Downs syndrome club-footed