shrink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.
Inflected forms:
form: shrinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shrinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shrank
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shrunk
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: shrunk
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrunken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause to become smaller.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dryer shrank my sweater.
The bottom line is this: To shrink your gut, you need to start listening to it.
gloss: To become smaller; to contract.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This garment will shrink when wet.
I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
Since 1982, it has shrunk by 250 meters.
When they took over the 1000 'Flying Scotsman' from May 1979, the journey from London to Edinburgh shrank to just 4hrs 37mins - including a stop at Newcastle.
gloss: To cower or flinch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
gloss: To draw back; to withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Libyc Hammon ſhrinks his horn,
gloss: To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
gloss: To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
pos: noun
examples: Yet almost with, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
gloss: A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.
My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams / She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
gloss: Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Assuming the retailer's shrink is average or below, and the owner is comfortable with the level of shrink, perhaps nothing more need be done except to maintain vigilance and to monitor the shrink for signs of emerging problems.
Antonyms: expand
grow
enlarge
stretch
Derived words: head-shrinker
nonshrink
nonshrinkable
nonshrinking
overshrink
preshrink
reshrink
shrinkability
shrinkable
shrink away
shrink back
shrink down
shrinkee
shrinkflate
shrinkflation
shrinking frog
shrinking violet
shrinkproof
shrink up
shrink-wrap
shrinkwrap
shrinky
sinew-shrunk
unshrink
unshrinkable
unshrinking
unshrinkingly
antishrink
grocery shrink ray
headshrink
heat shrink
shrink rate
shrink ray
shrink-swell
shrinkwrap license
shrink-wrapped
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: luistaa
lang: Finnish
word: laistaa
lang: Finnish
word: luikkia
lang: German
word: sich drücken
lang: Greek
word: λουφάρω
roman: loufáro
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀκνέω
roman: oknéō
lang: Japanese
word: 尻込みする
roman: shirigomi suru
lang: Korean
word: 움츠러지다
roman: umcheureojida
lang: Korean
word: 움츠리다
roman: umcheurida
lang: Korean
word: 움츠러들다
roman: umcheureodeulda
lang: Spanish
word: zafarse
lang: Spanish
word: rehuir
lang: Spanish
word: correrse