6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. 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. [1913 Webster] And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. [1913 Webster] What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. [1913 Webster] They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) [1913 Webster] 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shrunken \Shrunk"en\, p. p. & a. from {Shrink}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: shrink n : a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: {psychiatrist}, {head-shrinker}] v 1: wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: {shrivel}, {shrivel up}, {wither}] 2: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: {flinch}, {squinch}, {funk}, {cringe}, {wince}, {recoil}, {quail}] 3: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: {reduce}] 4: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: {contract}] [ant: {expand}, {stretch}] 5: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: {shrivel}] [also: {shrunken}, {shrunk}, {shrank}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: shrunken adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {withered}, {wizen}, {wizened}] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled}] 3: reduced in size by being drawn together; "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear" [syn: {shrunk}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: shrunken See {shrink} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 92 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrunken": Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, abated, ablated, atrophied, attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, desiccated, diminished, dissipated, dried-up, dropped, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, expended, fallen, forfeit, forfeited, gone, incipient, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, meager, midget, miniaturized, nanoid, out the window, papery, parched, parchmenty, preshrunk, pygmy, reduced, retrenched, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scaled-down, scraggy, scrubby, sear, sere, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, smaller, squandered, squat, stunted, thin, undersize, undersized, used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, wrinkled
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