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SHRUNK

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shrunk past şi part. trec. de la shrink.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He looked desperately sad and broken; even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under the strain of his much-tried emotions.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty, and she would have felt every scruple of mine with multiplied strength and refinement.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now that the close to 2,240 square-mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth — has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured.

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)

While the telomeres of subordinate meerkats remained stable, dominant telomeres shrunk by a third in just 18 months – suggesting accelerated ageing caused by the toils of raising young and fending off rivals.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

But surprisingly, the individual stems had shrunk by 16%.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

It was a subject which she must learn to speak of, and the weakness that shrunk from it would soon be quite unpardonable.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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