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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : shruhng-kuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃrʌŋ kən |
Définition of shrunken
Origin :- Old English gescruncan, past participle adjective from shrink (v.).
- adj withdrawn
- Mike had shrunken into his allenveloping coat with pathetic moroseness.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- The girl slid her arm under his neck, and then his shrunken hand was at rest.
- Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
- His nose, which seemed to have grown longer, descended over his shrunken lips.
- Extract from : « Balthasar » by Anatole France
- The frame must once have been powerful, but now it was shrunken and emaciated.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!
- Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
- It seemed to me shrunken and diminished, like everything that we have not seen for a long time.
- Extract from : « Ten Tales » by Franois Coppe
- When mules and horses went by they seemed poor and shrunken.
- Extract from : « The Red Acorn » by John McElroy
- When the invitation was first given, he had shrunken from it.
- Extract from : « The Chautauqua Girls At Home » by Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
- There was still no response from the shrunken figure under the bedclothes.
- Extract from : « The Secret House » by Edgar Wallace
- The optic nerve is a shrunken, atrophied and insensate thread.
- Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond
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