单词 | shrunken |
释义 | shrunken From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshrunkenshrunk‧en /ˈʃrʌŋkən/ adjective [usually before noun]SMALLhaving become smaller or been made smaller a shrunken old womanExamples from the Corpusshrunken• She looked frail and shrunken.• She felt now a dulled sense of degradation: she felt depraved and diminished and shrunken and old.• It was a shrunken Frank, whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit.• The car was driven by a man so shrunken his head hardly protruded above the steering-wheel.• The physical manifestation of his manhood, as always in repose, appeared a shrunken, insignificant part of him.• His shrunken skin becomes filled out and loses its coldness and pallor.• Her head was shrunken under a tight-fitting felt hat. |
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