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shrunken (root: shrink)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective shrunken has 2 senses
- shrunken(s = adj.all) 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"; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
- shrunken(s = adj.all) 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"
THESAURUS
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
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