Shrink Back

Definition: Shrink Back

Shrink Back

Verb

1. Shrink back, as in fear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Shrink Back

Avoidance

Shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire; (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.

Crosswords: Shrink Back

The stem, when the hand is stretched out to pluck the flower, quivers, and seems at once to shrink back, and present itself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "shrink back": shrink back from. Additional references.

Albanian

zbrapsem (fall back, shrink). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отбягвам (avoid, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, fence, give a wide berth, put by, sheer, shrink from, shun, sidestep, taboo), отдръпвам се (back away, dodge, ease off, ebb, flow back, move away, move up, pull over, quail, recoil, retire, shrink away, stand aside, stand off, step aside). (various references)

Czech

ustoupit (budge, fall back, give back, give ground, give in, recede, relent, retire, retreat, shrink, shrink from, start back, submit, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Finnish

kavahtaa (start up). (various references)

German

zurückweichen (back away, draw back, fall back, flinch, move back, recede, retreat, shy away, stand back, subside, to flinch, withdraw), zurückschrecken (blench, boggle, cringe, deter, discourage, recoil, scare, shy away, spring back, start back, to blench). (various references)

Italian

ritrarsi (shrink away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辟�" (being frightened, disconcerted, succumbing to, wince). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へきえき (being frightened, disconcerted, succumbing to, wince). (various references)

Pig Latin

inkshray ackbay

Russian 

отшатнуться (recoil, start back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustuknuti (back away, blench, flinch, jib, lose ground, recede, recoil, step back). (various references)

Spanish

echarse atrás (back down, flinch, shrink away). (various references)

Swedish

rygga tillbaka för, fasa (abhorance, abhorrence, bevel, fright, horror, phase, shudder, terror). (various references)

Turkish

geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retract, retreat, set back, stand back, step back, withdraw), ürkerek gerilemek. (various references)

abhorrebit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: brackish, crankish.

-3 letters: rankish, ricksha.

-4 letters: arshin, bairns, banish, brachs, brains, branch, branks, bricks, brinks, cabins, cairns, chains, chairs, charks, chinas, chinks, chirks, cranks, inarch, khakis, kirsch, kishka, knacks, rachis, rakish, schrik, shairn, shikar, shrank, shrink.

-5 letters: abris, airns, ankhs, backs, bairn, banks, baric, barks, barns, basic, basin, birch, birks, brach, brain, brank, brans.