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Definitions for SHRUNKEN
ˈʃrʌŋ kənshrunk·en
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Princeton's WordNet
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizenedadjective
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"
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunkenadjective
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"
Wiktionary
shrunkenadjective
Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Shrunken
The part. passive of shrink.
She weighing the decaying plight,
And shrunken sinews of her chosen knight;
Would not a while her forward course pursue. Fa. Queen.If there were taken out of mens minds, vain opinions, it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy. Francis Bacon.
ChatGPT
shrunken
Shrunken generally refers to something that has contracted or become smaller in size than its original state. This can be due to various reasons like exposure to heat, cold, moisture, pressure, or simply the passing of time. It is often used to describe objects or materials but can also refer to qualities such as ambition or the economy.
Webster Dictionary
Shrunken
of Shrink
Shrunken
p. p. & a. from Shrink
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SHRUNKEN in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SHRUNKEN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of SHRUNKEN in a Sentence
When Robert [King] tells you that he gets disoriented physically, I can tell him that people who are chronically depressed have a shrunken hippocampus, and that that affects your ability to orient in space, in 3D.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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