shrinked

English

Verb

shrinked

1. (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of shrink
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.

Usage notes

The standard past tenses of shrink are shrank and shrunk.

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