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withdrawn
Introvert.
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  1. Introvert.
  2. Emotionally unresponsive or socially detached; introverted or aloof.
  3. Withdrawing within oneself; shy, reserved, introverted, etc.
withered
Shriveled, shrunken, or faded from or as if from loss of moisture or sustenance:
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  1. Shriveled, shrunken, or faded from or as if from loss of moisture or sustenance:
  2. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
contracted
Made smaller by contraction.
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  1. Made smaller by contraction.
  2. Incurred; acquired.
  3. (Not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
shriveled
Collapsed in size.
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  1. Collapsed in size.
  2. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
cadaverous
Of or like a cadaver; esp., pale, ghastly, or gaunt and haggard
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  1. Of or like a cadaver; esp., pale, ghastly, or gaunt and haggard
  2. Suggestive of death; corpselike:
  3. Emaciated; gaunt:
drawn
Appearing agitated and unwell
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  1. Appearing agitated and unwell
  2. With neither side winning or losing; even; tied
  3. Haggard, as from fatigue or ill health:
gaunt
Bleak or desolate:
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  1. Bleak or desolate:
  2. Thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated
  3. Thin or emaciated:
skeletal
Attached to or formed by a skeleton.
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  1. Attached to or formed by a skeleton.
  2. So thin or emaciated as to appear bony.
  3. Haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
wasted
Needless or superfluous:
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  1. Needless or superfluous:
  2. Not profitably used or maintained:
  3. Deteriorated; ravaged:
Find another word for shrunken. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for shrunken, like: withdrawn, withered, dwindled, contracted, shriveled, dry, wrinkled, cadaverous, drawn, emaciated and gaunt.

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  • A few verses from the Psalms, the shrunken remainder of a whole Psalm.

  • The expression has meanwhile changed: the face is pale or livid; there are dark rings under the eyes; the features are pinched and sharp, and the whole skin shrunken; the fingers are dead white, the nails blue.

  • His figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his hair hung in dishevelled locks over his haggard countenance.

  • These last possess ovaries like the queen, but shrunken and aborted so as to render the insect normally incapable of eggproduction.

  • In a few instances, such bodies, probably more than five thousand years old, have been found with skin and hair well preserved though dried and shrunken; usually everything but the bones has decayed.

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