Synonyms for shrunken

Synonyms for (adj) shrunken

Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

Definition: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

Usage: our shriveled receipts during the storm; as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled; the dollar's shrunken buying power

Similar words: reduced, decreased

Definition: made less in size or amount or degree


Synonyms: withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

Definition: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

Usage: the old woman's shriveled skin; he looked shriveled and ill; a shrunken old man; a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

Similar words: thin, lean

Definition: lacking excess flesh

Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare


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