Definitions for shrunk

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Spelling: [shruhngk]
IPA: /ʃrʌŋk/

Shrunk is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in shrunk (hknrsu).

Definitions for shrunk

noun

  1. an act or instance of shrinking.
  2. a shrinking movement.
  3. shrinkage.
  4. Also, shrinker. Also called head shrinker.Slang. a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or psychoanalyst.

verb

  1. a past participle and simple past tense of shrink.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to shrink or contract; reduce.
  2. Textiles. to cause (a fabric) to contract during finishing, thus preventing shrinkage, during laundering, of the garments made from it.

verb (used without object)

  1. to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance:
  2. to contract or lessen in size, as from exposure to conditions of temperature or moisture:
  3. to become reduced in extent or compass.

Origin of shrunk

before 900; 1955-60 for def 9; Middle English schrinken, Old English scrincan; cognate with Middle Dutch schrinken, Swedish skrynka to shrink, Norwegian skrukka old shrunken woman

Examples for shrunk

He was “overwhelmed by the feeling” that “the Suffolk expanses” had “shrunk once and for all to a single, blind, insensate spot.”

She shrank, as many a woman has shrunk before, from confronting him with his lie.

Of course the town had shrunk fearfully, since I was a child there.

Cleveland may have shrunk, but it remains relevant both numerically and as a cautionary tale.

I was shown how much the value of my life had shrunk on my very first day in the state system.

Tories and Liberals knew he had not shrunk from meeting the public on this question.

This is all true even as the distance between standards of living in the United States and other developed countries has shrunk.

No surprise then that aside from wealthy coastal suburbs, the Democratic base has shrunk to the urban cores and college towns.

Miss Dorcas, too, had heard it, and shrunk from its undisguised profanity.

They had shrunk past homeless people, lying coiled up in nooks.

Word Value for shrunk
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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