Defenition of the word shrink
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Defenition of the word shrink
- To decrease in size, range, or extent.
- draw back, as with fear
- a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- draw together; "The fabric shrank"
- reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
- decrease in size, range, or extent; ""His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- wither, esp. with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
- decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- decrease in size, range, or extent
- become smaller or draw together
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- wither, as with a loss of moisture
- draw back, as with fear or pain
Synonyms for the word shrink
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- analyst
- back away
- contract
- counselor
- cower
- cringe
- decline
- decrease
- diminish
- disappear
- drop
- dwindle
- fall
- fall back
- flinch
- funk
- get smaller
- grovel
- head-shrinker
- lessen
- minimize
- psychiatrist
- psychoanalyst
- quail
- recoil
- reduce
- reduce in size
- shrivel
- shrivel up
- squinch
- telescope
- therapist
- wince
- wither
Similar words in the shrink
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- shrink
- shrinkable
- shrinkage
- shrinkage's
- shrinking
- shrinks
Hyponyms for the word shrink
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- alienist
- analyst
- atrophy
- blast
- Charles Frederick Menninger
- Charles Menninger
- contract
- depopulate
- desolate
- die back
- die down
- downsize
- dry up
- flex
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Jaspers
- Karl Augustus Menninger
- Karl Jaspers
- Karl Menninger
- Karl Theodor Jaspers
- Menninger
- miniaturise
- miniaturize
- mummify
- psychoanalyst
- reduce
- reef
- retract
- scale down
- shrink back
- Sullivan
- William Claire Menninger
- William Menninger
Hypernyms for the word shrink
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- decrease
- diminish
- fall
- lessen
- medical specialist
- minify
- move
- specialist
Antonyms for the word shrink
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- expand
- spread out
- stretch
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