shrunken

shrunken
    adj 1: 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}]
    2: 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}]
    

Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. 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.
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            And on a broken reed he still did stay
            His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
            lay.                                  --Spenser.
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            I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
            will shrink or draw into less room.   --Bacon.
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            Against this fire do I shrink up.     --Shak.
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            And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            All the boards did shrink.            --Coleridge.
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   2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
      from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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            What happier natures shrink at with affright,
            The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.
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            They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
            from the task.                        --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd.)
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   3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
      or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrunken \Shrunk"en\,
   p. p. & a. from {Shrink}.
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "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