Shrunken
['ʃrʌŋkən]
Definition
(-) of Shrink
(-) p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- They surrounded the shrunken empire of Constantinople on every side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He then presented himself in a refulgent condition as to his attire, but looking indefinably shrunken and old. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This accumulation would be at the expense of the sea, whose surface would thus be further shrunken in comparison with the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the other side of the shrunken Abbasid domain there was also a Shiite kingdom in Persia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He sat with his eyes bent down, and as she went towards him she thought he looked smaller--he seemed so withered and shrunken. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Moira