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shrunken back

shrunken back is the past participle of shrink back.

Meaning of shrink back

Verb

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

  1. To back away or retreat; to abandon an effort.
    Synonyms:
    shrink away

Questions about shrunken back

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

Words near shrunken back in the dictionary

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

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