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AmE further allows other irregular verbs, such as dive (dove) [9] [10] or sneak (snuck), [11] [12] and often mixes the preterite and past participle forms (spring–sprang, US also spring–sprung), [13] [14] sometimes forcing verbs such as shrink (shrank–shrunk) to have a further form, thus shrunk–shrunken.
Preshrinking is a process in which fabric is intentionally shrunk before it is cut and sewn into a garment or other textile product. [6] [7] Manufacturers use the term "pre-shrunk" to describe fabric or garments that have undergone processing, which is expected to limit shrinkage to less than 3% in either direction during standard wash tests or laundering. [8]
The UK Office for National Statistics wrote in 2019, "We identified 206 products that shrank in size and 79 that increased in size between September 2015 and June 2017. There was no trend in the frequency of size changes over this period, which included the EU referendum.
71% of Americans Have Noticed Shrinkflation — Here Are the Products and Categories That Shrunk the Most. ... family-size Frosted Flakes shrank the most (9.6%) per ounce from 24.0 ounces to 21.7 ...
Guigoz infant formula produced by Nestlé went from 900 grams (31.75 oz) to 830 grams (29 oz), while Unilever’s Viennetta ice-cream cake shrank to 320 grams (11 oz) from 350 grams (12 oz).
The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as output shrank more than anticipated in the final three months of the ...
I shrank. I have shrunk. It's the "have". Just like drink/drank/drunk or stink/stank/stunk. - 75.133.80.44 18:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC) I came here wondering the same thing. In International English shrank is the past tense of shrink. Shrunk is the past participle. The past participle is the form used with have or had as in I have shrunk the t shirt.
The aim of the process is a cloth which does not shrink significantly during production, cutting, ironing, sewing, or especially, by wearing and washing the finished clothes. Cloth and articles made from it may be labelled to have a specific shrink-proof value (if pre-shrunk), e.g., of under 1%.