'Shrunken' definitions:
Definition of 'shrunken'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]
adjective
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, shrunken]
Definition of 'Shrunken'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'shrunken'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Lilliputian,
- long-lost,
- lost,
- lost to,
- lower,
- lowered,
- meager,
- midget,
- miniaturized,
- nanoid,
- out the window,
- papery,
- parched,
- parchmenty,
- preshrunk,
- pygmy,
- reduced,
- retrenched,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- runty,
- Sanforized,
- scaled-down,
- scraggy,
- scrubby,
- sear,
- sere,
- shorn,
- shorter,
- shriveled,
- shriveled up,
- shrunk,
- smaller,
- squandered,
- squat,
- stunted,
- thin,
- Tom Thumb,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- used,
- used up,
- wasted,
- wasted away,
- watered-down,
- weakened,
- weazened,
- wilted,
- withered,
- wizen,
- wizen-faced,
- wizened,
- worn,
- worn away,
- wrinkled