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Synonyms for shrunken


Grammar : Adj
Spell : shruhng-kuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃrʌŋ kən



Définition of shrunken

Origin :
  • Old English gescruncan, past participle adjective from shrink (v.).
  • adj withdrawn
Example sentences :
  • Mike had shrunken into his allenveloping coat with pathetic moroseness.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • The girl slid her arm under his neck, and then his shrunken hand was at rest.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • His nose, which seemed to have grown longer, descended over his shrunken lips.
  • Extract from : « Balthasar » by Anatole France
  • The frame must once have been powerful, but now it was shrunken and emaciated.
  • Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!
  • Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
  • It seemed to me shrunken and diminished, like everything that we have not seen for a long time.
  • Extract from : « Ten Tales » by Franois Coppe
  • When mules and horses went by they seemed poor and shrunken.
  • Extract from : « The Red Acorn » by John McElroy
  • When the invitation was first given, he had shrunken from it.
  • Extract from : « The Chautauqua Girls At Home » by Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
  • There was still no response from the shrunken figure under the bedclothes.
  • Extract from : « The Secret House » by Edgar Wallace
  • The optic nerve is a shrunken, atrophied and insensate thread.
  • Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond

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