What's the difference between clung and shrunken?

Clung


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Cling.
  • (v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
  • (2) We were naive, no doubt, but the whole world was naive with us Omar Robert Hamilton But the power of the spectacle faded, the urgency of revolution grew weaker, our enemies regrouped and the elites prepared for elections as we clung ever more to the vanishing unknown.
  • (3) This meant that the oil, too, flowed in, and when the floods receded they left a ring of black crude around this particular field, and the thick gunk still clung to the blades of grass.
  • (4) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (5) The idea that any woman can represent all women is clung to, even though it's reductive and absurd.
  • (6) She has survived the shark tank of commercial theatre, earned a lot, lost a lot (her company still owes about £8m), yet somehow clung on to her charm.
  • (7) Most of the wounded were moved initially to a local hospital where terrified women and children clung to each other, waiting for news of relatives.
  • (8) Despite the backlash Hollande clung to the principle of the supertax even after it was dismissed by the country’s highest court, fearing a revolt by his leftwing allies.
  • (9) Throughout most of that time, he clung on to the cities portfolio.
  • (10) The truth is that dogma is, if anything, clung to even more tightly in London than in Brussels, and its grip has to be broken in both.
  • (11) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
  • (12) The membrane clung to the cell wall even after obliteration of most of the intracellular structure.
  • (13) That, of course, was why Redgrave clung on so tight.
  • (14) Personally, I believe that Hayek irrationally clung to a notion of natural order – what he called "spontaneous order" – that blinded him to the humanly-constructed nature of the wealth distributions that occur under conditions that he called "competitive".
  • (15) Labour was not.” The third theme is the importance of reaching out to England, especially to voters who don’t live in the English towns where Labour clung on in the election.
  • (16) The other boy had clung to the undercarriage of a lorry to enter the UK.
  • (17) He clung to his argument that it would be premature to comment until investigations had run their course.
  • (18) One of the believers said he had clung to the notion of a cosmic end of the world since his father died.
  • (19) They weren't students of the music, but clung to it as unselfconsciously and with the same desperate energy as their mass audiences.
  • (20) Some members clung to “#NeverTrump” sympathies even after his run on the Hill.

Shrunken


Definition:

  • () of Shrink
  • () p. p. & a. from Shrink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We considered and discussed the case histories in comparison with the clinical symptoms and the consequent therapy of 47 urological patients with unilaterally shrunken kidney.
  • (2) They agreed to only elect three members of the group’s shrunken board, with the rest appointed from the world of business.
  • (3) At autopsy, the liver was found to be small, shrunken, and scarred; histological sections demonstrated postnecrotic cirrhosis.
  • (4) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
  • (5) At first, the pelvis is totally exposed to a homogenous irradiation, so the shrunken tumor can more easily be arrived by curietherapy.
  • (6) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (7) The Silastic ball was severely deformed and shrunken.
  • (8) Similar amounts of Nac were gained in 3 h by ouabain-treated cells exposed to the K ionophore valinomycin or by cells osmotically shrunken.
  • (9) The remaining spongiosa, depleted and shrunken, is misleading in its appearance, resembling a basalis layer.
  • (10) Physiological changes in dehydration consist of rigidity of the connective tissue (vascular system and lungs) and intracellular fluid loss to the extracellular spaces, resulting in dry mucous membranes, shrunken muscle cells in the lips and the tongue, soft eyes, and adverse effects to the central nervous system.
  • (11) It is suggested that in the nucleus basalis in Alzheimer's disease, large neurons are not completely lost; many are shrunken and thus excluded from the previous studies of large cells counted in Nissl-stained material.
  • (12) The service itself, running at more than two hours, was an almost flawless spectacle, yet curiously shrunken.
  • (13) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
  • (14) Free spherules and shrunken degenerative forms were present as well.
  • (15) The apical blebs were still present, but they were shrunken and their content appeared condensed.
  • (16) Its long-term effectiveness confirms the view, not widely held, that one primary cause of involutional entropion is a shrunken and atrophic tarsal plate.
  • (17) Rohon-Beard cells could be labeled, more or less shrunken, until stage 55.
  • (18) Affected axoplasm was often vacuolated and shrunken, with loss of microtubules and microfilaments and separation of the axoplasmic membrane from the myelin sheath.
  • (19) The most common criteria for distinguishing non-bursting atretic follicles were the extremely shrunken, irregularly shaped oocytes and the separation of the granulosa from the theca.
  • (20) These shrunken stored rabbit cells could also be reinflated using nystatin, so that their mean cell volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, average cell densities and filterabilities were restored to normal values.

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