Shrunk

Since 2000, ACoC has shrunk from a little over 650,000 attendees in 2000 to around 325,000 in 2010, a loss of over 20,000 people annually. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But you have a point, and if you want to see the future of Worldcon, you can look at Westercon, which has shrunk from a high attendance in the high 2000s to around 500, partially because it stayed away from its core constituency (the San Francisco-Los Angeles) axis for so long that lots of the regular attendees drifted away because they didn't/couldn't fly off to El Paso, Honolulu, Spokane, Calgary, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But you have a point, and if you want to see the future of Worldcon, you can look at Westercon, which has shrunk from a high attendance in the high 2000s to around 500, partially because it stayed away from its core constituency (the San Francisco-Los Angeles) axis for so long that lots of the regular attendees drifted away because they didn't/couldn't fly off to El Paso, Honolulu, Spokane, Calgary, etc ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the introduction of quotas in 1984, reserves have shrunk from a gargantuan 1.28 million tonnes in 1986, to a laughable 16,000 tonnes this year. ❋ Steve Carper (2007)

Oddly, the number of ballots shrunk from the first count to the recountThe total ballots counted in the first count were 92,992 and ballots counted in the manual recount were 92,930, a difference of 62 ballots. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Possibly," Chorley says, Hemans "shrunk from the research and illustration recommended to her, as involving too much labour; at all events, the poem was never completed" (1: 56-57). ❋ Unknown (1998)

She had a certain consciousness – or fear – that it would not be understood, and she would be laughed at – not openly, for Dr. Sandford was never impolite; but yet she shrunk from the cold glance of unbelief, or of derision, however well and kindly masked. ❋ Unknown (1907)

But for your perseverance and your faithful belief in the value of Manson's induction, you would have shrunk from the difficulties. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Any mother in England would have shrunk from the thought that her best-beloved son – especially a young man of Guy's temperament, and under Guy's present circumstances – was thrown into the society which now surrounded the debauched dotage of the too-notorious Earl of Luxmore. ❋ Unknown (1897)

I pleaded that I thought myself too young to encounter the cares and important duties of domestic life; I shrunk from the idea of everything clandestine, and anticipated a thousand ill consequences that might attend on a concealed marriage. ❋ Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1895)

Demi was his little friend, Tommy his patron, and Daisy the comforter of all his woes; for, though the children were younger than he, his timid spirit found a pleasure in their innocent society, and rather shrunk from the rough sports of the elder lads. ❋ Unknown (1871)

I do believe that if I had shrunk from the danger, and others had suffered in consequence, I should have felt more pain than I should have done had I received a bite. ❋ Unknown (1864)

I proposed the enterprize of poaching on his demesne to my few remaining comrades, who were the most determined and lawless of the crew; but they all shrunk from the peril; so I was left to achieve my revenge myself. ❋ Unknown (1826)

Solomon had an antipathy to the sight of a black, and he shrunk from the negro with strong signs of aversion. ❋ Unknown (1801)

She shrunk from a remonstrance she conceived she had merited, and regarded herself to be henceforth either culpable or unhappy. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Orlando, whose momentary courage already failed him, now half repented that he had said so much – now shrunk from the unworthy idea of concealing any thing. ❋ Unknown (1793)

The freedom of modern life suited so ill with the solemnity of respect that was shown towards her in her youth, that she shrunk from the uneasiness it gave her, and made around her a world of her own: of which when Orlando became an inhabitant, all that regarded him was assimilated to her own antediluvian notions. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Her mind shrunk from the idea of uniting her daughter to the murderer of her father. ❋ Unknown (1789)

Though these explanations did not at all raise the absent lords in his esteem, yet to appear hostile to the return of Lady Mar's relations would be a violence to her, which, in proportion as Wallace shrunk from the guilty affection she was so eager to lavish upon him, he was averse to committing; wishing, by showing her every proper consideration, to lead her to apprehend the turpitude of her conduct; by convincing her that his abhorrence of her advances had its origin in principle, rather than from personal repugnance to herself; and so she might see the foulness of her crime, and be recalled to virtue. ❋ Unknown (1875)

[I heard] you got shrunk at [the bar] [last night]. ❋ TurnipTrucker (2009)

"[Yay]! Martinis! [Let's get] shrunk on Martinis!" ❋ Sonny-boy (2003)

(At the [checkstand]) Wow, look at my [cart] - - I'm totally [shrunking]! What was I thinking, buying that outfit yesterday? I must have been really shrunking! ❋ Kat 6 (2009)

[IM] SO [SHRUNK] [RIGHT NOW]! ❋ SOMEONEEEEE (2014)

He's [shrunked]! He's [stoned] and [drunk]. ❋ DazudoPlayer (2012)

"I got so [shrunk] on vodka it looked like someone had put me in the [dryer] [the next day]." ❋ Jefira (2009)

[Anthony] and his friends went to see [Star Wars: The Force Awakens] while 'Shrunked' Anthony made friends with [the guy] to his left and almost got in an epic fight with the guy in front of him while Shrunked ❋ Sydonious (2016)

[Hey man] I think I’m already [shrunk]. Wow [brother] are you shrunk right now? ❋ Marcodrilo (2020)

Evan: I live for Shrunk Coma. I even have his merch. Clayton: Wow, have you heard [Fakey] [Snakey] by Shrunk Coma? [It’s beautiful]. ❋ Lucien Carr (2018)

When people ask for [my favorite] [movie], I [tell them] it’s Honey I shrunk the kids. ❋ Bawston69 (2019)