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shrunken 音标拼音: [ʃr'ʌŋkən] a. 缩小的
n.
vbl. shrink的过去分词 缩小的 shrink的过去分词 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { 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. [ 1913 Webster] And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] Against this fire do I shrink up. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] All the boards did shrink. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. [ 1913 Webster] What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. -- Jowett ( Thucyd.) [ 1913 Webster] 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [ R.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Shrunken \ Shrunk" en\, p. p. & a. from { Shrink}. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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