Shrunken

p. p. & a.

1.

p. p. & a. from Shrink.

Adj.	1.	shrunken - lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair" Synonyms: withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled
	2.	shrunken - reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled
	3.	shrunken - reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear" Synonyms: shrunk

Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, abated, ablated, atrophied, attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, desiccated, diminished, dissipated, dried-up, dropped, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, expended, fallen, forfeit, forfeited, gone, incipient, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, meager, midget, miniaturized, nanoid, out the window, papery, parched, parchmenty, preshrunk, pygmy, reduced, retrenched, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scaled-down, scraggy, scrubby, sear, sere, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, smaller, squandered, squat, stunted, thin, undersize, undersized, used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, wrinkled

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