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verb-intransitive. To become constricted from heat, moisture, or cold.

verb-intransitive. To become reduced in amount or value; dwindle: His savings quickly shrank.

verb-intransitive. To draw back instinctively, as from something alarming; recoil.

verb-intransitive. To show reluctance; hesitate: shrink from making such a sacrifice.

v. To cause to shrink.

n. The act of shrinking.

n. The degree to which something shrinks; shrinkage.

n. Slang A psychotherapist.

v. To contract, to (cause to) become smaller.

v. To cower or flinch.

v. To attempt to avoid an unwanted or intimidating duty; as, to shrink from a task.

n. shrinkage; contraction; recoil

n. A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

verb-intransitive. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

verb-intransitive. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.

verb-intransitive. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.

v. To cause to contract or shrink.

v. To draw back; to withdraw.

n. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.

n. a psychiatrist.

To contract spontaneously; draw or be drawn into less length, breadth, or compass by an inherent property: as, woolen cloth shrinks in hot water; a flaxen or hempen line shrinks in a humid atmosphere.

To diminish; reduce.

To shrivel: become wrinkled by contraction, as the skin.

To draw back or retire, as from danger; recoil physically, as in fear, horror, or distrust; sometimes, simply, to go aside.

To decline or hesitate to act, as from fear; recoil morally or mentally, as in fear, horror, distrust, distaste, and the like.

To express fear, horror, or pain by shrugging or contracting the body; wince; flinch.

Synonyms See shrivel.

4–6. To flinch, blench.

To cause to contract: as, to shrink flannel by immersing it in boiling water.

To make smaller; make appear smaller.

To withdraw: formerly with in.

The act of shrinking; a spontaneous drawing into less compass.

A contraction.

A shrug.

A diminution; a falling away; shrinkage.

A withdrawing from fear or horror; recoil.

v. draw back, as with fear or pain

v. become smaller or draw together

v. reduce in size; reduce physically

v. decrease in size, range, or extent

n. a physician who specializes in psychiatry

v. wither, as with a loss of moisture

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enlarge    grow    stretch    expand   

shrank    shrinked    shrinking    shrinks    shrunk    shrunken   

diminish    fall    lessen    decrease   

contract    diminish    hesitate    contraction    hesitation    diminution    to shrink on   

shrunken    shrank    shrunk   

shudder    quake    withdraw    shrinkage    contraction    withdrawal    psychiatrist    head-shrinker   

Chink    Fink    Inc    Inc.    bink    blink    brink    chink    cinque    clink   

wither    bony    limp    mangle    misshapen    leathery    thin    pallid    feeble    wan