What is the meaning of shrunken?

verb

  • Wither, as with a loss of moisture.
    • usage: "The fruit dried and shriveled"
  • Draw back, as with fear or pain.
    • usage: "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
  • Reduce in size; reduce physically.
    • usage: "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image"
  • Become smaller or draw together.
    • usage: "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
  • Decrease in size, range, or extent.
    • usage: "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

adjective

  • Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
    • usage: "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"
  • Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity.
    • usage: "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
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