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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
shrink
n 1: a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn:
psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink]
v 1: wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and
shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, shrink,
wither]
2: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch,
squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil,
quail]
3: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the
sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: shrink,
reduce]
4: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The
balloon shrank" [syn: shrink, contract] [ant: expand,
spread out, stretch]
5: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank";
"My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn:
shrink, shrivel]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. p. Shrunk
or Shrunken, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking.] [OE.
shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]
1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
become compacted.
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And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
lay. --Spenser.
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I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon.
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Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak.
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And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
--Dryden.
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All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge.
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2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.
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They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
from the task. --Jowett
(Thucyd.)
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3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Shrink \Shrink\, v. t.
1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by
imersing it in boiling water.
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2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. --Milton.
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To shrink on (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly
around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a
tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made
slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded
by heat till it can be slipped into place.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Shrink \Shrink\, n.
1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil;
withdrawal.
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Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
That I had less to praise. --Leigh Hunt.
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2. [Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for
psychiatrist.] a psychiatrist. [Coll.]
[PJC]
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Thesaurus Results for shrink:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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