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shrunken up

shrunken up is the 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 shrunken up

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

Words near shrunken up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrunken 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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