shrunken

I miss the strife His shrunken staff, his hungry wife Inflame chafe!

So says Thomas Hobbes, whose definition of all laughter illuminates those moments when we smugly parade past the shrunken giants.

With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde.

One sweater, in particular, a short-sleeve, shrunken crewneck, was charmingly marked by teardrop-shaped dollops of teal blue.

You would see it small, shrunken, dropped together, just like the body of a materialising medium at a seance.

He stopped and supported his shrunken frame wearily on his crutches, and leaned against a neighboring wall.

The only trace of hair upon his countenance grew on the shrunken upper lip—mere wisps of white down.

Sirdeller himself, in the clear light which streamed through the large window, seemed more aged and shrunken than ever.

The young king, pale and shrunken, lay as if buried in his sheets, his pinched little face scarcely showing on the pillow.