Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. 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.
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And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
lay. --Spenser.
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I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon.
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Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak.
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And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
--Dryden.
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All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge.
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2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.
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They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
from the task. --Jowett
(Thucyd.)
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3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shrunken \Shrunk"en\,
p. p. & a. from Shrink.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
shrunken
See shrink
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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