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say it: SHRUHNG-kuhn
shrunken is an adjective meaning "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness". It is pronounced /ˈʃɹʌŋkən/ — SHRUHNG-kuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
“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”
“he did well despite his withered arm”
“a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”
reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
“our shriveled receipts during the storm”
“as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled”
“the dollar's shrunken buying power”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shrunken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.