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Another word for shrunken

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Adjective

  1. Physically haggard

    Idioms:
    See also:

    tired

    better

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Another word for shrunken

Modifier
  1. See also:

    wrinkled

    dry

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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Great Salt Lake is a shrunken remnant of Lake Bonneville.

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