Word Finder - shrunken

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To cause to become smaller.

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The dryer shrank my sweater.

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To become smaller; to contract.

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This garment will shrink when wet.

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To cower or flinch.

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Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.

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To draw back; to withdraw.

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To withdraw or retire, as from danger.

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To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.

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Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.

His figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his hair hung in dishevelled locks over his haggard countenance.

Great Salt Lake is a shrunken remnant of Lake Bonneville.

He brings his style of Christmas to everyone with toys that include shrunken heads, killer jack-in-the-boxes and man-eating wreaths.

The shrunken hairy beige armadillo happily sniffed at the three-day old spam fritter.

A shrunken scarred area in the lateral wall is the site of a previous, healed infarct.

Making a shrunken head was done by removing the skin from the skull.

The remains of a shrunken village are situated immediately to the west of the church.

It is a shrunken version of the Bluewater shopping center, only with gutter to gutter carpeting.

Normative theory in both cases is reduced to the shrunken form of applied ethics - moral principles unsuccessfully imposed on politics.

No longer will the CDU be leaving a shrunken FDP as the voice of business and market reform in Germany.

These types of tables can accommodate large numbers of people and can then be shrunken down when not in use.

These diseases cause the skeletal or voluntary muscles to become weak or shrunken (atrophied).

When compared to a standard scoop bikini bottom, boy shorts look like a shrunken set of street shorts.

It was a shrunken old man with no hands and empty eye sockets.

Two gates, the one of the time of Edward I., the other erected early in the 15th century, overlook the marshes; a third stands at a considerable distance west of the town, its position pointing the contrast between the extent of the ancient town and that of the shrunken village of to-day.

In a few instances, such bodies, probably more than five thousand years old, have been found with skin and hair well preserved though dried and shrunken; usually everything but the bones has decayed.

Earlier, the processes of mummification produced a skeleton merely clothed in a dry and shrunken skin.

It issues as a torrent, at the height of 5909 ft., from the great Rhone glacier at the head of the Valais, the recent retreat of this glacier having proved that the river really flows from beneath it, and does not take its rise from the warm springs that are now at some distance from its shrunken snout.

As a result the fatigued cells appear shrunken, and their reaction to staining reagents alters, thus showing chemical alteration.

The Fayum is the site of the Lake of Moeris (q.v.) of the ancient Egyptians - a lake of which Birket el Kerun is the shrunken remnant.

It could not lean on the Assembly, a mere shrunken remnant, whose days were numbered.

In that crumpled air of shrunken faces and gray shriveled hair with the watching windows misting?

Vittadini first crafted the bag using high quality shrunken calfskin that looks so soft!

These last possess ovaries like the queen, but shrunken and aborted so as to render the insect normally incapable of eggproduction.