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shrunk, ppl. a. | SECOND EDITION 1989 |
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k) [pa. pple. of SHRINK v.]
1. Contracted or reduced in size; drawn together into a smaller compass; 
reduced in power, means, or the like. Also with together, up, away. a. in predicative use.
1530 PALSGR. 705/2 My leather purse is shronke.
1540 
Acolastus II.
I. Hij, My bely or panche is all wasted quyte vp or shronke to gether.
1592 KYD Murther I. Brewen Wks. (1901) 291 Vomiting till his intrailes were all shrunke and broken.
1607 SHAKES. Timon III. ii. 68 Timon is shrunke indeede.
1663 STAPYLTON Slighted Maid Prol., Men are shrunk in Brain as well as Stature.
1675 EVELYN Terra (1676) 68 Sedums..when to all appearance shrunk and shrivel'd up.
1823 SCOTT Quentin D. xxviii, My dominions..are somewhat shrunk in compass.
1827 Chron. Canongate iii, The wood paneling was shrunk and warped.
1845 BUDD Dis. Liver 245 The brain..is generally somewhat shrunk.
b. in attributive use. Now somewhat rare.
1592 SHAKES. Rom. & Jul. IV. i. 104 In this borrowed likenesse of shrunke death Thou shalt continue two and forty houres.
1593 Lucr. 1455 Her blew bloud chang'd to blacke in euerie vaine, Wanting the spring, that those shrunke pipes had fed.
1600 A.Y.L. II. vii. 161 His shrunke shanke.
1609 B. JONSON Masque Wks. (1616) 955 As low as lies Old shrunk-vp Chaos.
1631 MASSINGER Believe as You List IV. iv, To stretch my shruncke up sinnewes at an ore.
1675 H. WOOLLEY Gentlew. Comp. 185 The withered or shrunk Barberries.
1784 COWPER Task I. 392 The flaccid, shrunk, And wither'd muscle.
1835 Court Mag. VI. 71/2 She was of shrunk growth, if not positively deformed.
1849 CUPPLES Green Hand xv. (1856) 149 Till his shrunk face was as quiet on the pillow as if he'd been really at home the first night after a voyage.
1907 G. F. S. E
LLIOT Rom. Plant Life xv. 196 The ‘shrunk’ or folded condition of the leaflets.
2. Of cloth: That has been subjected to the process of ‘shrinking’.
1895 Stores Price List, White Flannels...Cream Tennis, Twill (Shrunk).
3. Fitted on by the process of shrinking.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 4/2 Eight cylinders, arranged V-fashion, with shrunk-on brass water-jackets.
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