shrink

noun

  1. 1

    a physician who specializes in psychiatry

verb

  1. 1

    decrease in size, range, or extent

    His earnings shrank

    My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me

  2. 2

    become smaller or draw together

    The fabric shrank

    The balloon shrank

  3. 3

    reduce in size; reduce physically

    Hot water will shrink the sweater

    Can you shrink this image?

  4. 4

    wither, as with a loss of moisture

    The fruit dried and shriveled

  5. 5

    draw back, as with fear or pain

    she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

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