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Definition: Shrunk |
ShrunkAdjective1. Reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shrunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: ShrunkSynonym: shrunken (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contraction | Adjective: contracting; Verb: astringent; shrunk, contracted; Verb: strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning; Verb: neap, compact. |
Littleness | Weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; (narrow); granular; (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shrunk |
| English words defined with "shrunk": shrinkable, Sinew-shrunk ♦ unshrinkable ♦ Wearish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shrunk": boucle finisher, bumper-machine operator ♦ Cock-crow ♦ drawn clay ♦ Ginevra ♦ knitted-garment finisher, knitted-goods shaper ♦ presser-and-blocker, knitted goods, presser-and-shaper, knitted goods ♦ shrink film, shrink ring, Shrink Wrap, SHRINKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, shrunk ring, shrunk-on ring, SIZER, HAND, SIZER, MACHINE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) My sweater shrunk. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) I guess it's shrunk to about 20 inches by now. (Shaft in Africa; writing credit: Stirling Silliphant) Honey, I shrunk the kids (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; writing credit: Stuart Gordon; Brian Yuzna) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Theodore Roosevelt | Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty, and she would have felt every scruple of mine with multiplied strength and refinement |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The younger daughter, without coming out of the darkness into which she had shrunk, showed her bleeding fist |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Furthermore, the economic crisis of 1997 shrunk demand. (references) | |
The Russian public health care system has shrunk drastically in coverage since the demise of the USSR. Invalids of different categories by the law have a right to get wheelchairs, orthopedic and prosthetic goods free, but because of a scarce budget and limited MMI funds these items have not been provided. (references) | ||
Economic History | Eritrea | By 1998, the army had shrunk to 47,000. (references) |
Slovak Rep | The deficit of other services shrunk by $80 million from 1999 to $156 million. (references) | |
Singapore | The local market shrunk by 62% in the first five months of 2001 as a result of a plunge in imports. (references) | |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | Government investment has shrunk as spending on debt service and government salaries, to provide political patronage, drain government revenue. (references) |
Paraguay | The informal economy, estimated at 50 percent of the value of the formal sector, has shrunk considerably in the last few years and suffered a severe blow with the implementation of stricter border controls by the Brazilian Government on the important crossroads of Cuidad del Este. (references) | |
Korea | The gross national product (GNP) may have grown slightly in 2000 due largely to international aid and limited South Korean investment, but this followed nearly a decade of steady decline in which GNP is estimated to have shrunk by half since 1993. Most foreign observers note improved food and other economic conditions over the last year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To have shrunk in making it from saying all that was necessary to its correct understanding, and that the truth would justify, for fear of giving offense to others, would have been unworthy of us. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Keep in mind, the same technological advances that have shrunk cell phones to fit in the palms of our hands can also make weapons of terror easier to conceal and easier to use. |
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| "Shrunk" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 96.33% of the time. "Shrunk" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 96.33% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.21% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.46% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 218 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "shrunk": shrunk ring. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shrunk": shrunk-back, shrunk-on. | |
Ending with "shrunk": heat-shrunk, pre-shrunk, Sinew-shrunk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shrunk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "缩 (Constricted, Contracted, Contracting, contraction, Necked, retraction, shrinkage, shrinking, shrunken). (various references) | |
Danish | skrumpenarv (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Dutch | schrumpfleder (drawn grain, shrunken grain), relaxleder (drawn grain, shrunken grain), krimpleder (drawn grain, shrunken grain), gekrompen leder (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Finnish | ryppynahka (drawn grain, shrunken grain), kutistunut (shrunken). (various references) | |
French | cuir plissé (shrunken grain), cuir crispé (shrunken grain). (various references) | |
German | Schrumpfnarben (drawn grain, shrunken grain), zusammengeschrumpft (shrunken), geschrumpft (shrinked, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken), eingegangen (dead, defunct). (various references) | |
Greek | ζαρωμένοσ (rugose, runty, scrubby, shrunken, wrinkly), αόρ. του shrink (shrank), δέρμα ρυτιδωμένο (drawn grain, shrunken grain), δέρμα πτυχωτό (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsugorít (narrow, shrank, to constrict, to shrink, to sinter), visszariad (blench, boggle, shrank, to baulk, to blench, to shrink), visszahúzódik (draw back, move back, shrank, to draw back, to hold back, to recede, to recess, to recoil, to shrink), elfonnyad (shrank, to die down, to parch, to shrink), összezsugorít (shrank, to shrink, to shrivel, to wizen), összemegy (contract, shrank, shrink, to crush, to shrink). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ciut (shriveled, tight). (various references) | |
Italian | ristretto,ridotto, fiore raggrinzito (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Korean | 긴축하" (Scrimped, shrunken). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unkshray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | couro pregueado (drawn grain, shrunken grain), couro franzido (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecut şi participiu trecut de la shrink, coşcovit. (various references) | |
Russian | сжимать (clasp, clench, compress, constrict, contract, grip, jam, pinch, shrank, squeeze, squeezed, strain, strangulate, tighten, vice, vise), от shrink (shrank). (various references) | |
Spanish | pret y pp de shrink, flor crispada (drawn grain, shrunken grain). (various references) | |
Swedish | minskat. (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ shrink. (various references) | |
Turkish | daraltılmış, daralmış, çekmiş (shrunken), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, crooked, decadent, decrepit, depressed, down, down and out, hollow, shrunken). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự co lại (shrank, shrink). (various references) | |
Welsh | crebach (withered). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Aneteilen de autw o hlioV hnika parhlqen to eidoV tou qeou autoV de epeskazen tw mhrw autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quam ob causam non comedunt filii Israhel nervum qui emarcuit in femore Iacob usque in praesentem diem eo quod tetigerit nervum femoris eius et obstipuerit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For what cause the children of Israel eten not synwe, that wexe drie in the hipe of Jacob, vnto the day that is now, therthury that he towchide the synwe of his hipe, and it was stoneyd. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Wherfore the childern of Israell eate not of the senow that shrancke vnder the thye vnto this daye: because that he smote Iacob vnder the thye in the senow that shroncke. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrunk, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrunk. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | Tungod niini dili magakaon ang mga anak sa Israel, hangtud karong adlawa, sa kusog nga mibinhod, nga anaa sa piyakpiyak sa balat-ang: kay naigo si Jacob niini nga bahin sa balat-ang niya sa kusog sa kilid. |
| Croatian | Sunce je nad njim bilo ogranulo kad je prošao Penuel. Hramao je zbog kuka. |
| Danish | Derfor undlader Israeliterne endnu den Dag i Dag at spise Hoftenerven, der ligger over Hofteskålen, thi han gav Jakob et Slag på Hofteskålen, på Hoftenerven. |
| Dutch | Daarom eten de kinderen Israels de verrukte zenuw niet, die op het gewricht der heup is, tot op dezen dag, omdat Hij het gewricht van Jakobs heup aangeroerd had, aan de verrukte zenuw. |
| Finnish | Sentähden israelilaiset eivät vielä tänäkään päivänä syö reisijännettä, joka kulkee lonkkaluun yli; sillä hän iski Jaakobia lonkkaluuhun, reisijänteen kohdalle. |
| French | C`est pourquoi jusqu` ce jour, les enfants d`Israël ne mangent point le tendon qui est l`emboîture de la hanche; car Dieu frappa Jacob l`emboîture de la hanche, au tendon. |
| German | Daher essen die Kinder Israel keine Spannader auf dem Gelenk der Hüfte bis auf den heutigen Tag, darum daß die Spannader an dem Gelenk der Hüfte Jakobs angerührt ward. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sampai sekarang pun keturunan Israel tidak makan daging yang menutupi sendi pinggul binatang, karena Yakub telah kena pukulan pada pinggulnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab itu sampai pada hari ini tiada dimakan oleh bani Israel akan urat kerukut, yang pada pangkal paha, sebab telah dipegangnya pangkal paha Yakub pada tempat urat kerukut itu. |
| Maori | Koia nga tama a Iharaira te kai ai i te uaua i memenge, ara i tera i te ateatenga o te huha, a tae noa ki tenei ra: no te mea hoki i pa ia ki te ateatenga o te huha o Hakopa, ki te uaua i memenge. |
| Norwegian | Derfor er det så den dag idag at Israels barn aldrig eter spennesenen som er på hofteskålen, fordi han rørte ved Jakobs hofteskål på spennesenen. |
| Rumanian | Iatq de ce, pknq kn ziua de azi, Israeliyii nu mqnkncq vkna de la kncheietura coapsei; cqci Dumnezeu a lovit pe Iacov la kncheietura coapsei kn vknq. |
| Swedish | Fördenskull äta Israels barn ännu i dag icke höftsenan som ligger på höftleden, därför nämligen, att han gav Jakob ett slag på höftleden, på höftsenan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shrunk": shrunken. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shrunk": preshrunk, unshrunk. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shrunk": preshrunken. (additional references) | |
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"Shrunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schrenk, schrund, schunk, shrinky, shrond, shrung, shurk, Strunk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shrunk" (pronounced shru"ngk) |
| 4 | -r u" ng k | drunk, trunk. |
| 3 | -u" ng k | bunk, chunk, clunk, debunk, Dunk, flunk, funk, hunk, junk, monk, plunk, punk, skunk, Spunk, stunk, sunk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hunks, knurs. | |
-2 letters: hunk, huns, husk, knur, rhus, runs, rush, rusk, shun, sunk, urns. | |
-3 letters: hun, nus, run, sun, uns, urn. | |
-4 letters: nu, sh, uh, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hunkers. | |
+2 letters: cornhusk, shrunken, unkosher, unshrunk. | |
+3 letters: cornhusks, krumhorns, preshrunk, shunpiker, trunkfish. | |
+4 letters: buckthorns, cornhusker, krummhorns, kurbashing, rockhounds, roughnecks, shunpikers. | |
+5 letters: cornhuskers, cornhusking, groupthinks, housebroken, huckstering, keypunchers, preshrunken, trunkfishes. | |
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