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Definition of Shrunken
1. Adjective. Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. "A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
2. Adjective. Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity. "The dollar's shrunken buying power"
Definition of Shrunken
1. Adjective. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled. ¹
2. Verb. (past participle of shrink) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrunken
1. shrink [v] - See also: shrink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrunken
Literary usage of Shrunken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"shrunken endosperm. Jour. Heredity 12: 76-83. Fig. ÍO-Ц. 1921.—Plants from kernels
with shrunken endosperm, occurring in maize from the Ponka Indians in ..."
2. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"How can it be pretended, as we have heard it urged, that it plunders the States
of that poor, shrunken residue of sovereignty which the Constitution secured ..."
3. The Dictionary of English History edited by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1896)
"Their ambition is to preserve the shrunken remnant of their dominions from the
insidious encroachments of the Celt. The natives are rapidly assimilating the ..."
4. Venetian Life by William Dean Howells (1907)
"VENICE REVISITED A shrunken EFFECT IN THE PLACE—QUARRELING GONDOLIERS — GOOD ...
I went to the Frari, and found it strangely shrunken, as in fact I found ..."
5. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"... by the blood-globules, is never to be seen in the blood while circulating in
the vessels. RE» GLOBULES or THE BLOOD, shrunken, with their margina ..."
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