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

The shrunken Pac-12 signed a one-year broadcast deal with the CW just weeks before the start of football season. —Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 6 Sep. 2025

Its all-new Kipling features a layout very similar to a full-size van camper, only shrunken and tucked into Ford's midsize Transit Custom. —New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025

The public and Chicago’s business community have every right to insist that CPS and CTU begin the urgent task of right-sizing a shrunken district before even beginning to consider the painful steps that would accompany any major funding infusion. —The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025

For non-Africans, a shrunken representation of Africa minimizes its demographic, economic and strategic significance, Ndiaye added. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of shrink entry 1

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shrunken

• drunken
• sunken