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Becoming and making smaller or less
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ease up/off
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Making short, sudden movements

shrunk | American Dictionary

shrunk
us/ʃrʌŋk/
past simple and past participle of shrink

Examples of shrunk

shrunk
At time t + 1, the individual has experienced a reduction in visual acuity and the capability set has shrunk.
On the other hand, the phase orbits corresponding to oscillatory motion can be smoothly shrunk to a point and are thus topologically distinct.
First, the new system provided a disincentive for local governments to promote local economic growth, and thus shrunk local tax bases.
First, through the contraction of public expenditure on social security and services, state funding on education in real terms has shrunk considerably.
Although the interval has been shrunk, nevertheless the time matching method must be applied to traverse the interval.
Both of these findings indicate that the patient's brain has shrunk and withered.
As a consequence, high-frequency components are systematically shrunk toward zero.
After performing (partial) expansion, structures are shrunk again, by recursively removing leaf nodes from the structures.
If not, why do you think the base shrunk?
As will be discussed later, the boundary layer has shrunk to 4 mm, comparable in scale with the 3 mm bead size.
The state has shrunk and so is no longer sufficient to act as a vehicle for reproducing the elite in toto.
Informants repor ted that, in recent years, the jaiak have shrunk in scale and impor tance, and young adults are noticeably absent.
In addition, in the cities, the gap between the rich and the poor is wide and the middle class has shrunk.
When local growth slowed down, the local tax base shrunk, implying that the revenues from formal taxes could no longer meet the needs of local governments.
The traditional links of loyalty between parties and news organizations have shrunk, as have the opportunities for politicians to reach voters in terms of time, space and sound bites.
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