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shrunk up

shrunk up is the simple past and past participle 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 shrunk up

What is shrunk up the simple past and past participle of?
Shrunk up is the simple past and past participle of shrink up.

Words near shrunk up in the dictionary

  1. shrunds
  2. shrunk
  3. shrunk away
  4. shrunk back
  5. shrunk down
  6. shrunk up
  7. shrunken
  8. shrunken away
  9. shrunken back
  10. shrunken down
  11. shrunken up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrunk 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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