shrunk

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shrunk

/ˈʃɹʌŋk/ UK, US
[ˈʃɹʷʌŋk] UK, US
/ˈʃɹʊŋk/ Northern England
/ˈʃɾʌŋk/ Scotland
/ˈʃɾəŋk/ Wales
/ˈʃɻʌŋk/ Northern Ireland
/ˈʃɹɐŋk/ Australia, New Zealand
[ˈʃɹʷɐ̞ŋk] Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -ʌŋk

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of shrink Fanny shrunk back to her seat, with feelings sadly pained by his language and his smell of spirits; […]

adjective more shrunk · most shrunk

shrunken […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne / Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: contracted, diminished, withered, lessened, reduced, fallen, reduce, dropped, lost, depressed, regressed, cut, abated, curtailed, declined, decreased

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verb past participle of shrink

Español	encogido
हिन्दी	संकुचित saṅkucit
Deutsch	geschrumpft

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"shrunk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shrunk. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"shrunk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shrunk.

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@misc{shrunk_2026,
  title = {shrunk},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shrunk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}