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shrunk

/shruhngk/US // ʃrʌŋk //UK // (ʃrʌŋk) //

缩水,缩水的,缩小的,缩小

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a past participle and simple past tense of shrink.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbecome smaller

Examples

  • No surprise then that aside from wealthy coastal suburbs, the Democratic base has shrunk to the urban cores and college towns.

  • I was shown how much the value of my life had shrunk on my very first day in the state system.

  • This is all true even as the distance between standards of living in the United States and other developed countries has shrunk.

  • A 33-year-old mother talked about how her breasts shrunk after nursing her children, and how it made her feel less feminine.

  • Cleveland may have shrunk, but it remains relevant both numerically and as a cautionary tale.

  • Poor Anastatia, as a hare nestles in its form, had almost shrunk beneath the bed-clothes.

  • In the last few weeks his sane and normal self seemed to have shrunk within him.

  • The dark, saturnine stranger had shrunk away into the background of his life, and no longer seemed of importance to him.

  • Digby might have been flattered with the remark, but he would have rather shrunk from the career they proposed for him.

  • The figure of this man, who had once loomed so largely in his life, had gradually shrunk away into the background.