shrunken
英['ʃrʌŋkən]
美['ʃrʌŋkən]
- adj. 缩小的，缩拢的
- v. 收缩，缩短（shrink的过去分词）
英英释意
- 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 gray hair"
- 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"
- 3. reduced in size by being drawn together;
- "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear"