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# shrunken

«shrunken» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having become smaller than before, often in a way that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (shrunken); old past participle of shrink (shrink, shrank, shrunk/shrunken)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having become smaller than before, often in a way that looks wrinkled, dried or weak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#m1)

2) (of numbers or amounts) Made smaller, reduced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a shrunken figure is an old or ill person who looks small and frail, or a magic spell has made someone tiny; in science, a dried fruit is a shrunken grape. In everyday life clothes washed too hot come out shrunken. In history and museum talk «shrunken heads» were made by a few peoples long ago, which can be mentioned in museums.

### examples

- My jumper came out of the wash all shrunken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x1)
- The old man looked shrunken in the big armchair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x2)
- A raisin is a shrunken, dried grape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x3)
- The shrunken lake left boats stuck in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x4)
- In the story, the witch's spell left the prince shrunken to the size of a thumb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x5)
- The shrunken budget meant fewer school trips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/#x6)

### note

Mostly used as an adjective before a noun: «a shrunken apple». As the verb's past participle people usually say «shrunk»: «My jeans have shrunk». Past simple is «shrank»: «The jumper shrank».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shrunken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrunken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.