Wondering how to hyphenate the English word shrunken? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
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Wither, as with a loss of moisture The fruit dried and shriveled |
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Draw back, as with fear or pain She flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf |
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Reduce in size Reduce physically Hot water will shrink the sweater Can you shrink this image? |
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Become smaller or draw together The fabric shrank The balloon shrank |
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Decrease in size, range, or extent His earnings shrank My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me |
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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 |
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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 |