SHRINK
\ʃɹˈɪŋk], \ʃɹˈɪŋk], \ʃ_ɹ_ˈɪ_ŋ_k]\
Definitions of SHRINK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a physician who specializes in psychiatry
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become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
By Princeton University
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a physician who specializes in psychiatry
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wither, esp. with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To draw back; to withdraw.
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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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To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
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To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
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The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
By Oddity Software
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To draw back; to withdraw.
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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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To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
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To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
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The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
By Noah Webster.
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To become smaller or shorter; to draw back from danger, etc..
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To cause to contract or grow smaller.
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A contraction; a withdrawal.
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Shrank.
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Shrunk, or, chiefly, as p.
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Shrunken.
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Shrinking.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To contract: to wither: to occupy less space: to become wrinkled by contraction: to recoil, as from fear, disgust, etc.
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To cause to shrink or contract:-pa.t.shrank, shrunk; pa.p. shrunk, shrunken.
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Act of shrinking: contraction: withdrawal or recoil.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Act of shrinking; contraction; corrugation;—a withdrawing or contraction of the body from fear or horror;-recoil.
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