adjective

• 1Having become or been made smaller in size.

  ‘today, this piece of wetland is a shrunken version of its original self’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the country's shrunken economy’
  • ‘a shrunken sweater’

  1. 1.1(of a person's face or other part of the body) wrinkled or shrivelled through old age or illness.
     ‘the painting shows three old women with shrunken faces’
     More example sentences

     • ‘polio left him with a limp and a shrunken arm’
     Synonyms

     wrinkled, lined, creased, shrivelled, shrivelled up, withered, weather-beaten, thin, shrunken, gnarled, dried up, worn, wasted