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by killingtime74 603 days ago
Shrank
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Would be correct if it is "We shrank", but from my poor memory of the terminology that is the transitive form, shrunken is the intransitive form. But once again from my poor memory.
I've spoken English as my native language for almost five decades and I've never seen/heard the word "shranked" before.

This surely cannot be correct. Even the title of the linked article doesn't use "shranked". What?

Commonly (since ca. 19th century), shrank is used as the past tense of shrink, shrunk as the past particle, and shrunken as an adjective. The title of the linked article uses "shrunk" as past tense and the submitted title was changed to "shrunked" for some reason. "Shranked" was not mentioned anywhere. (But "shrinked" has had some use in the past.)
I was in the pool!
I think I prefer shrunked in this context.
Shrinky dinky
Honey, I shrunk the git!