Definitions for shrunken

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shrunken shrunk·en

Spelling: [shruhng-kuh n]

IPA: /ˈʃrʌŋ kən/

Shrunken is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in shrunken (ehknnrsu).

Definitions for shrunken

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 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 shrunken

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 shrunken

One sweater, in particular, a short-sleeve, shrunken crewneck, was charmingly marked by teardrop-shaped dollops of teal blue.

The girl slid her arm under his neck, and then his shrunken hand was at rest.

How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!

With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde.

I miss the strife His shrunken staff, his hungry wife Inflame chafe!

The frame must once have been powerful, but now it was shrunken and emaciated.

And I like the way you carried your mic pack like it was a shrunken head.

Mike had shrunken into his allenveloping coat with pathetic moroseness.

His nose, which seemed to have grown longer, descended over his shrunken lips.

So says Thomas Hobbes, whose definition of all laughter illuminates those moments when we smugly parade past the shrunken giants.