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Meanings of shrunken in English

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

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              Usage of shrunken in English
              1
              A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
              Halo Silentium
              3
              The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
              Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
              4
              His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
              The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
              5
              The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken.
              The Metal Monster
              6
              This shrunken gold dollar is small enough; but that is not all.
              Stories from Everybody's Magazine
              7
              He was just a small, shrunken boy in a young man's body.
              Night Shift
              8
              Gerry Gleason's acrylic captures a universal shrunken female breast for Ireland's Famine.
              The Irish Times
              9
              When I left him he looked shrunken to half his natural size.
              The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
              10
              Through one tear he saw the slack fall of a shrunken breast.
              The wandering fire
              11
              The eyes were restless and glittering, the once-plump hands shrunken into claws.
              Broken to the Plow / A Novel
              12
              But on the reverse, a pimply shrunken figure emerged from the bath.
              Nonsenseorship
              13
              The whole face was convulsed, the poor shrunken limbs rigid as iron.
              Robert Elsmere
              14
              Pursuing my researches in the Dolphin's Head, I found it sorely shrunken.
              The Uncommercial Traveller
              15
              This time it was the real man, though incredibly and horribly shrunken.
              The Wendigo
              16
              We cannot be shrunken in spirit by the miseries of our ancestors.
              Feminist dot com
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              Shrunken across language varieties
              United Kingdom
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              United States of America
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