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shrank up

shrank up is the simple past of shrink up.

Meaning of shrink up

Verb

shrink up (third-person singular simple present shrinks up, present participle shrinking up, simple past shrank up or shrunk up, past participle shrunk up or shrunken up)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
    • Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3

Questions about shrank up

What is shrank up the simple past of?
Shrank up is the simple past of shrink up.

Words near shrank up in the dictionary

  1. shrams
  2. shrank
  3. shrank away
  4. shrank back
  5. shrank down
  6. shrank up
  7. shrankest
  8. shranks
  9. shrap
  10. shrape
  11. shrapes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrank up (page history and authors); shrink up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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