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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
- Example: "the old woman's shriveled skin"
- Example: "he looked shriveled and ill"
- Example: "a shrunken old man"
- Example: "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
- Example: "he did well despite his withered arm"
- Example: "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
[syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]

2. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
- Example: "our shriveled receipts during the storm"
- Example: "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"
- Example: "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
[syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. p. Shrunk or Shrunken, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. [1913 Webster] And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. [1913 Webster] What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. [1913 Webster] They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) [1913 Webster] 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shrunken \Shrunk"en\, p. p. & a. from Shrink. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shrunken adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]