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shrunken

/shruhng-kuhn/US // ˈʃrʌŋ kən //UK // (ˈʃrʌŋkən) //

缩水的,缩水,缩水型,缩小的

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a past participle of shrink.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : contracted or lessened in size, extent, or scope: Many state agencies are operating with a shrunken workforce.

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Examples

  • Still, that’s enough to tell that many of them seem like slightly shrunken versions of Neptune, with thick, toxic atmospheres.

  • Fairfax and Loudoun County public schools seized on the shrunken distance to expand the number of days of in-person learning they are offering to students this semester — going from two days a week to four days a week of face-to-face instruction.

  • Houses disappeared, only for a portion of the building to reappear closer to the road, shrunken or engorged.

  • In a year where the shrunken salary cap has made much of the NFC exactly that, it’s a very good place for Washington to find itself.

  • Even in this shrunken pandemic form, the stage is about more than football, and it brings us back together, in spirit at least.

  • And I like the way you carried your mic pack like it was a shrunken head.

  • I miss the strife His shrunken staff, his hungry wife Inflame chafe!

  • So says Thomas Hobbes, whose definition of all laughter illuminates those moments when we smugly parade past the shrunken giants.

  • With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde.

  • One sweater, in particular, a short-sleeve, shrunken crewneck, was charmingly marked by teardrop-shaped dollops of teal blue.

  • You would see it small, shrunken, dropped together, just like the body of a materialising medium at a seance.

  • He stopped and supported his shrunken frame wearily on his crutches, and leaned against a neighboring wall.

  • The only trace of hair upon his countenance grew on the shrunken upper lip—mere wisps of white down.

  • Sirdeller himself, in the clear light which streamed through the large window, seemed more aged and shrunken than ever.

  • The young king, pale and shrunken, lay as if buried in his sheets, his pinched little face scarcely showing on the pillow.