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shrunken away

shrunken away is the past participle of shrink away.

Meaning of shrink away

Verb

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

  1. To draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away.
    • But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine

Questions about shrunken away

What is shrunken away the past participle of?
Shrunken away is the past participle of shrink away.

Words near shrunken away in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrunken away (page history and authors); shrink away (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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