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What is the adjective for shrunken?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs shrink, shram and shrinke which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shrunken
  1. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shriveled, shrivelled, emaciated, wasted, diminished, wilted, withered, contracted, dwindled, thin, lean, gaunt, starved, wizened, skinny, scrawny, cadaverous, lank, bony, undernourished, skeletal, haggard, scraggy, underfed, anorexic, attenuated, pinched, drawn, famished, skin-and-bones, half-starved, angular, atrophied, raw-boned, size-zero, stick-like, looking like a bag of bones, skin and bones, shrunk, spare, starveling, sapped, taut, anorectic, fleshless, hollow-eyed, as thin as a rake, very thin, lantern-jawed, skin-and-bone … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Her other features, overshadowed by this denseness of bone, appeared shrunken in contrast.”
shrammed
  1. (dialect, Southern Britain) Of a person, cold (in temperature); shrivelled with cold.
shrinkproof
  1. resistant to shrinkage
shrinky
  1. (informal) Characteristic of a shrink (psychologist).
shrinkable
  1. Capable of being made to shrink.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Reverse printed by rotogravure in eight colors, including metallic silver, the Seal-It heat shrinkable sleeve label enhances the product.”
      “Reverse printed by rotogravure in eight colors, including metallic silver, the shrinkable sleeve label enhances the company's product.”
      “All those shops selling these goods have to give consumers the assurance that they are fast colour, non shrinkable and correct size.”
shrunk
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shrink
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contracted, compressed, condensed, constricted, narrowed, deflated, concentrated, downsized, shortened, shrivelled, shriveled, slimmed, squeezed, truncated, withered, disappeared, grew smaller, grown smaller, became smaller, become smaller, got smaller, gotten smaller, made smaller, pared down, slimmed down, wasted away, constringed, compacted, reduced, collapsed, capsulized, capsuled, narrowed down, telescoped, tightened, straitened, decreased, dwindled, restricted, diminished, cramped, circumscribed, restrained, made narrower, become narrower, curtailed, tensed, scrimped, tautened, pinched … more
shrinking
  1. present participle of shrink
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contracting, compressing, condensing, constricting, narrowing, deflating, concentrating, downsizing, shortening, shrivelling, shriveling, slimming, squeezing, truncating, withering, disappearing, growing smaller, becoming smaller, getting smaller, making smaller, paring down, slimming down, wasting away, reducing, constringing, decreasing, dwindling, curtailing, compacting, collapsing, scrimping, capsulizing, capsuling, narrowing down, telescoping, waning, shriveling up, pressing together, packing into, diminishing, tightening, altering, gathering, taking in, drawing in, lessening, declining … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She was a shrinking violet, always keeping to herself and avoiding social interactions due to her lack of self-confidence.”
shrinking
  1. present participle of shrink
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contracting, compressing, condensing, constricting, narrowing, deflating, concentrating, downsizing, shortening, shrivelling, shriveling, slimming, squeezing, truncating, withering, disappearing, growing smaller, becoming smaller, getting smaller, making smaller, paring down, slimming down, wasting away, reducing, constringing, decreasing, dwindling, curtailing, compacting, collapsing, scrimping, capsulizing, capsuling, narrowing down, telescoping, waning, shriveling up, pressing together, packing into, diminishing, tightening, altering, gathering, taking in, drawing in, lessening, declining … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She was a shrinking violet, always keeping to herself and avoiding social interactions due to her lack of self-confidence.”
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