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Meanings of shrunken in English
Synonyms
Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1
And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2
Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3
The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4
She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5
It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1
The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2
He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3
The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4
Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5
Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
1
The lined and wizened face of the German General stood before him.
2
The wizened eyes brightened, and when he stopped one of them whispered:
3
He looked ancient in the torchlight: more wizened and mummified than ever.
4
The ruts on the road were worn and wizened by the cold.
5
Below the top bars of a wizened grate was a chilly fire.
1
One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen, and misshapen.
2
A cunning, wizen head peered out at him from the gloom.
3
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
4
His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
5
Mr. Finch's wizen little legs took him out of the room.
Usage of shrunken in English
1
A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
2
Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
3
The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
4
His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
5
The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken.
6
This shrunken gold dollar is small enough; but that is not all.
7
He was just a small, shrunken boy in a young man's body.
8
Gerry Gleason's acrylic captures a universal shrunken female breast for Ireland's Famine.
9
When I left him he looked shrunken to half his natural size.
10
Through one tear he saw the slack fall of a shrunken breast.
11
The eyes were restless and glittering, the once-plump hands shrunken into claws.
12
But on the reverse, a pimply shrunken figure emerged from the bath.
13
The whole face was convulsed, the poor shrunken limbs rigid as iron.
14
Pursuing my researches in the Dolphin's Head, I found it sorely shrunken.
15
This time it was the real man, though incredibly and horribly shrunken.
16
We cannot be shrunken in spirit by the miseries of our ancestors.
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Shrunken across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common