shrunken

adjective

shrunk·​en ˈshrəŋ-kən 

ˈsrəŋ-

: reduced in size : made less or smaller

After he'd lost nearly thirty pounds, his shrunken face disclosed itself to us as a replica of my elderly grandmother's …

—Philip Roth

… I had … a closet filled with shrunken clothes I'd blasted in the dryer …

—Caitlin Moscatello

… minerals and salts are more and more concentrated in the shrunken stream as it evaporates under the southwestern Sun.

—Jonathan Weiner

A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that's so slow, you'd have laughed at it in 2007.

—David Pogue

Yet the reality is that the public finances are going to be in an even bigger mess and the economy more shrunken than in the economic crisis of 2008/09.

—Ross Clark

… millions of people are unable to afford mortgage payments on homes with shrunken values.

—Arthur Delaney

The shrunken national attention span that television has fostered will probably reduce significantly the readership for this massive biography …

—Harry F. Waters

Examples of shrunken in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Aside from the inability to suspend disbelief at the silliness of the shrunken test subjects kept in glass jars, The Bride of Frankenstein sets the standard for horror movie sequels to this day. —Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023

The restart came with four laps left, with Chastain, Byron, Bowman and Chase Elliott leading the shrunken field. —Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2024

While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter. —Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024

The graves constituted a series of shallow, rectangular pits, one of which contained the skeletal remains of a child in a shrunken position, officials said. —Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024

In the aftermath of its devastating defeat in World War II, the country faced food rationing, price controls, a collapse in industrial production and a shrunken workforce following the deaths ofmillions of working-age men. —Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024

Its body resembled a shriveled, shrunken version of a surreal mammal. —Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024

But ultimately, the range of sizes remains mildly shrunken. —Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024

Designed specifically as a smart home controller, the Echo Hub is a slimline version of an Echo Show 8 or a shrunken version of a Show 15. —Wes Davis, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of shrink entry 1

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above