shrunken
4
4.8
- adjective
- /ˈʃrʌŋkən/
:
marchito
- As she grew older, her features turned shrunken and fragile, reflecting her delicate state.
Examples
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Now this Lillian is shrunken, ordered into a wheelchair, and pushed to the front of a building she cannot recognize.
Fiction book (1994) -
After years without exercise, his body had become lean and shrunken, showing signs of aging.
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His wife led me to the living room of their Pine Falls home, and a shrunken old man walked into the room.
Fiction book (2002) -
His frame was shrunken from the robust, healthy man I remembered from so many short years ago.
Fiction book (1996) -
The pupils of his dark eyes were two shrunken pinpoints.
Fiction book (1996) -
His eyes had lost their luster, worry betrayed by the shrunken skin of his face.
Fiction book (1992) -
Inside, we find her in a corner of the lounge, so shrunken and slumped that I hardly recognize her.
Fiction book (1998) -
From the doorway, she took one backward look and saw Abelard, shrunken and forlorn, abandoned in the center of the room.
Fiction book (1995) -
When Ora emerges from her house, she's slumped, a little shrunken, her grizzled hair smoothed back in a pageboy.
Fiction book (2000) -
The bicep, deltoid, and trapezius had atrophied so that his arm looked shrunken, a seeming remnant of childhood polio.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.5
Having small lines on skin or cloth
5
8.1
Thin and wrinkled from age or illness
1
4.6
It looks dry, thin, and lifeless like old leaves
1
5.2
Dry and wrinkled because it has lost water
1
7.7
A part of the body that becomes smaller and weaker from illness, injury or lack of use
Dry, thin, and wrinkled from old age or sickness
Dried and shrunken with a wrinkled surface from lack of water
Antonyms
How Shrunken
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shrunken comes from the verb shrink, which means 'to become smaller'. When a body, fruit, or cloth shrinks it looks tight and wrinkled, so a shrunken person or object appears thin and wrinkled.