shrunken
Americanverb
adjective
verb
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of shrunken
First recorded before 1000, for the adjective
Example Sentences
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Shrunken versions of novels like “Sense and Sensibility” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” will be sold by Coach as readable bag charms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Shrunken confidence in government health programs is one reason the drug isn’t reaching those who need it.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2024
Shrunken heads were then produced by people in the Amazon and by outsiders merely for trading purposes, with the earliest known account of an outsider making a tsantsa in 1872.
From New York Times • May 13, 2021
But these aren’t standard bar offerings: The Barstool Rodeo is topped with beer-battered poblano peppers and coffee grounds, while Otto’s Shrunken Head mixes pork rinds, avocado slices and pineapple relish.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2017
Shrunken Bruntsea clung about the oldest of its churches, while the four others fell to rack and ruin, and settled into cow-yards and barns, and places where old men might sit and sigh.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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