shrink n : a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker]

1 wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, wither]

2 draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]

3 reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: reduce]

4 become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]

5 decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: shrivel] [also: shrunken, shrunk, shrank]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 gray hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, 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]

3 reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear" [syn: shrunk]shrunken See shrink

English

Adjective

1. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shriveled.

Translations

Verb

shrunken

1. past participle of shrink

Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, abated, ablated, atrophied, attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, desiccated, diminished, dissipated, dried-up, dropped, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, expended, fallen, forfeit, forfeited, gone, incipient, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, meager, midget, miniaturized, nanoid, out the window, papery, parched, parchmenty, preshrunk, pygmy, reduced, retrenched, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scaled-down, scraggy, scrubby, sear, sere, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, smaller, squandered, squat, stunted, thin, undersize, undersized, used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, wrinkled