Shrink

Definition: Shrink

Shrink

Noun

1. A physician who specializes in psychiatry.

Verb

1. Wither, esp. with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled".

2. Draw back, as with fear.

3. Reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?".

4. Draw together; "The fabric shrank".

5. Decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me".

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

Date "shrink" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonyms: Shrink

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.

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Dislike

Shun, avoid; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces.

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Hate

Verb: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl; disrelish; (dislike).

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Recession

Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid).

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Sensibility

Take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.

Unwillingness

Demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate; avoid.

Crosswords: Shrink

Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

You tell me, you're the shrink. (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas)

Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink. (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes)

Do you buy all these books retail or do you send away for, like, a shrink kit that comes with all these volumes included (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

I'm going to tell you a story that will make your balls shrink to the size of raisins (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

I don't need to see no shrink (I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Dr. Shrink (1970)

Think Shrink (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mister Boffo Shrink Wrapped: Shrink Wrapped (reference)

• The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness (reference)

• The Kitchen Shrink (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Underdog:Big Shrink (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• And the Streets Did Shrink (reference)

• Shrink My World (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• BI/Query User Intel Single Shrink (reference)

• DB2 UDB ESE V8.1 DP ENG-CD SHRINK PK (reference)

• FENDER Vintage Voltage 10ft. Black and Silver cloth, Gold tip, shrink wrapped plug, INSTRUMENT CABLE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Each of us seemed to shrink, just at first, from touching on the deeper interests which linked our lives together

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.

Health

As the cysticerci die, the lesion will shrink. (references)

Shrink a tumor before surgery or radiation therapy. (references)

Doctors may use radiation before surgery to shrink a tumor. (references)

Business

Because of a low birthrate and price deflation, the market size in terms of value may shrink. (references)

While banks and financial-industrial groups have retained their nominal ownership of leasing companies, these companies are either entirely inactive or carrying out a minimal level of activity and their level of activity continues to shrink. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Over the last two years a plethora of negative factors have caused exports to shrink. (references)

Japan

The Japanese sporting goods market continued to shrink in 2000 because of the feeble economy. (references)

Vietnam

Similarly, if Vietnam keeps to its timetabling of state-owned enterprise reform, that sector will also shrink from its current employment level of about 2 million workers. (references)

Political Economy

ARGENTINA

The economy is estimated to shrink two percent in 2001. (references)

PARAGUAY

The Paraguayan government is heavily dependent on tariff revenue, which will continue to shrink in the near future as Mercosur adjusts downward its common external tariff rate. (references)

HUNGARY

Starting in 1997, successive governments have reduced income tax rates and employer social contributions in an effort to cut inflation, spur job growth, and shrink the gray economy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shrink": shrink at ♦ shrink away ♦ shrink back ♦ shrink back from ♦ shrink film ♦ shrink from ♦ shrink from doing smth. ♦ shrink from no task ♦ shrink from smth. ♦ shrink holes ♦ shrink in the wash ♦ shrink into oneself ♦ shrink mark ♦ shrink on ♦ shrink on a piece on to another ♦ shrink out ♦ shrink packaging ♦ shrink ring ♦ shrink up ♦ shrink wrap licence ♦ shrink wrapping ♦ To shrink on. Additional references.

Beginning with "shrink": shrink-fit, shrink-pack, shrink-resist, shrink-resistant, shrink-resisting, shrink-to-fit, shrink-wrap, shrink-wrapped, shrink-wrapped software, shrink-wrapping.

Ending with "shrink": non-shrink.

Afrikaans

ineenkrimp (cower). (various references)

Albanian

shkurtim (abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, clipping, contraction, crop, curtailment, cut, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, the ax, the axe), zbythem (blench, recoil, retreat, shy), zbrapsem (fall back, shrink back), tkurrje (contraction, shrinkage), tkurrem (contract, draw, dwindle), tkurr (contract, draw), tërhiqem (back away, back out of, backpedal, backslide, climb down, deny, depart, draw away, draw back, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, retrograde, withdraw), ngushtohem (be contracted, narrow, tighten), mblidhem (assemble, bank, build up, collect, contract, convene, cringe, crowd, crowd together, curl, draw, duck, forgather, huddle, mass, meet, mob, pile up, reunite, roll by, roll up), hyj (come, come in, enter, get in, go, go in, penetrate, perform, soak, turn in), futet (dock, work in), fus në ujë (douse, souse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمش, ‏تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evade, evasion, furtiveness, hedge, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle), ‏تقلص (contract, cringe, dwindle, retract, retraction, shrinkage, shrivel), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏صغر (belittle, dwarf, hoot, lessen, smallness), ‏إنكماش (retraction, shrinkage, tunnel), ‏إنكمش (contract, cower, cringe, retract, seize), ‏إنقبض (contract, tense), ‏إنقباض (constriction, contraction, retraction, shrinkage, shrinking, tone), ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, reverberate, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стопявам се (melt down), свиване (compression, constriction, contraction, cringing, crouch, flection, flick, inflection, inflexion, retraction, shrinkage, shrug), свивам се (clench, constrict, crouch, pull together, shrink up, writhe), смалявам (belittle, diminish, lessen, minify), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), психиатър (alienist, psychiatrist), правя плат да се свие. (various references)

Chinese 

抽缩, �"�縮 (contract, pull back). (various references)

Czech

srazit se (clabber, clot, collide, congeal, crash, Curdle, go off, solidify), scvrknout se, zmenšit se (abate, fall off, get small), ustoupit (budge, fall back, give back, give ground, give in, recede, relent, retire, retreat, shrink back, shrink from, start back, submit, withdraw, yield), podlehnout (be defeated, give way, go down, go under, succumb). (various references)

Danish

svinde (to shrink), sugningshulrum (shrink cavity, shrink hole), shrinkfolie (shrink film), krymperamme (shrink frame), forsyne med jernring (to band, to hoop, to shrink), gå ind (to contract, to shrink), indløbe (to contract, to shrink), indvæve (to contract, to shrink), krympe (shrink on a piece on to another, shrink-fit, to contract, to shrink, to shrink on), krympefri (shrink-resist, shrink-resistant, shrink-resisting), krympehuller (shrink holes), forstaerke med jernringe (to band, to hoop, to shrink), krympemaerke (pockmark, shrink mark, sink mark), valsetraaden skal vaere lunkerfri og skal leveres passende afklippet i mindst den ene ende (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end), krympering (shrink ring, shrunk ring, shrunk-on ring), lamineringslukning (shrink seal), lunker (shrink cavity, shrink hole), paakrympe (to band, to hoop, to shrink), krympekanon (shrink gun). (various references)

Dutch

ineenkronkelen (cower), ineenkrimpen (cower). (various references)

Esperanto

kuntiriĝi (cower), ŝrumpi (shrivel up). (various references)

Faeroese

tódna (shrivel up), krympast saman (shrivel up). (various references)

Farsi 

چروک شدن (Constringe, Puchery, Shrivel), کوچک شدن , عقب کشیدن (Recede, Setback), جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Backlog, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Flock, Gather, Group, Herd, Muster, Retract, Snuggle, Twitch), شانه خالی کردن از (Shirk). (various references)

Finnish

kutistua (contract, dwindle), kutistaa (shrink on a piece on to another, shrink-fit), huveta (decrease, dwindle), arastaa (shun). (various references)

French

se ratatiner (shrivel, shrivel up). (various references)

German

schrumpfen (atrophy, decline, depreciate, dwindle, get wrinkled, shrank, shrivel, shrunken, slim, to shrink, waste). (various references)

Greek 

συρρικνώνομαι (diminish, dwindle), συρικνώνομαι, συστέλλω (contract, furl, shrivel), συστέλλομαι (contract, shrivel), μαζεύω (collect, furl, gather, marsh, mass, muster, pick, pick up, rasie an army, wipe up), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle), οπισθοχωρώ (back, blench, draw back, fall back, flinch), δειλιάζω (balk, be frightened, blench, doggle, flinch, quail). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תכוץ (cower, cringe, crouch, twitch), ל�"צטמק (shrivel), לצמק (shrivel). (various references)

Hungarian

összehúzódás (constriction, constringency, contraction, retraction, shrinkage, traction), visszahúzódás (recess, recoiling, shyness), visszahőkölés (recoil, recoiling), pszichiáter (psychiater, psychiatrist), hátrálás (recess, recession, recoiling, regress, regression), összezsugorodás (crumpling, shrinkage, shrivelling), összeszűkülés (constriction), összemenés (shrinkage). (various references)

Indonesian

susut (decrease), menyusutkan, mengkerut, mengerut (contract, crease, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references)

Italian

restringere (abridge, confine, constrict, contract, get narrower, limit, limit oneself, narrow, restrict, straiten, take in, tighten). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辟�" (being frightened, disconcerted, shrink back, succumbing to, wince), 縮まる (to be contracted, to be shortened, to shrink), 縮める (to boil down, to reduce, to shorten, to shrink), 縮む　 (to be contracted, to shrink), 縮む (to be contracted, to shrink), 危ながる (to be afraid of, to feel uneasy about, to shrink from), 屈する (to be daunted, to bend, to shrink, to yield). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くっする (to be daunted, to bend, to shrink, to yield), あぶながる (to be afraid of, to feel uneasy about, to shrink from), へきえき (being frightened, disconcerted, shrink back, succumbing to, wince), ちぢまる (to be contracted, to be shortened, to shrink), ちぢめる (to boil down, to reduce, to shorten, to shrink), ちぢむ (to be contracted, to shrink). (various references)

Korean 

수축 (contraction). (various references)

Manx

cribbey (contract, curb, shrinkage). (various references)

Pig Latin

inkshray.(various references)

Portuguese

retroceder (fall back, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, revert, run back, set back, subside), ficar menor (shorten), fazer encolher, estreitar-se, enrugar-se (pucker, ripple, roughen), enrugar‐se (shrivel up), engelhar (shrivel up), encolher (contract, retract), encarquilhar‐se (shrivel up), diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, sink, wear down, whittle), contrair-se (pucker). (various references)

Romanian

se contracta (contract, shrivel), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), se împuţina (drop off, lessen), se da înapoi (back, draw, draw off, move back), se micşora (contract, decline, diminish, dwindle, ease, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, grow less, grow smaller, lessen, shrink away), se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), se scurta (close in, draw in, shorten), se strâmta (narrow, shrink up), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), scoroji (cast, shrivel, warp), zgârci (clench, contract, gristle, shrivel, strain, writhe), îngusta (narrow, narrow down, straiten, taper, tighten), retracta (call back, eat one's words, recant, retract, unsay, withdraw), pregeta (hesitate, waver), cocoloşi (ball, crumple, cuddle, hush up, shrivel), coşcovi (come off), burduşi (lay in, pommel, sandbag, stuff, tan, warp). (various references)

Russian 

усадка (contraction, shrinkage, shrinkages, shrinking), уменьшать уменьшение (decrease, thinning, wane), уменьшать размер окна, уплотнять (compact, obturate, squeeze, tighten), сокращение в объеме, сжиматься (contract, shrivel, tighten), садиться (alighted, set, sit down), отпрянуть (shy), закрывать окно, избегать (avoid, dodge, elude, escaped, eschew, evade, guard against, obviate, put by, shun, shunned, shunning, steer clear of), давать усадку (contract). (various references)

Scottish

sgag (cause to split, crack, filter, split, winnow), deubh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skupljanje (agglomeration, assemblage, gathering, levy, round up, shrinkage, shrinking), skupiti se (agglomerate, convene, flock, huddle), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, rake, treasure), zazirati (jib, shrink from, shy), psihijatar (alienist, psychiatrist), prezati, osušiti se (dry, get dry), bora (crinkle, plica, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

encoger (constrict, contract, intimidate, shorten, shrivel, withdraw). (various references)

Swedish

skrumpna (shrivel), krympa (waste). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เล็กลง, การห�"ตัว, กลัว (fear), ห�", ความกลัว (fear). (various references)

Turkish

ruh doktoru, psikiyatrist (alienist, headshrinker, psychiatrist), küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lessen, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, reduce), küçülmek (be on the wane, be reduced, become small, decrease, derogate, dwindle, feel insignificant, wane), kısalmak (close in, close upon, draw in, run up, shorten), hoşlanmamak (bar, detest, dislike, have down on smb., not to like, regard with disfavor, regard with disfavour), daralmak (become narrow, contract, get bored, narrow, run up), büzmek (astringe, constrict, gather, pucker, purse up, shir, shirr, shrivel), büzülmek (crouch, ensconce oneself), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, sink, tail, wane, wear away), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çekinmek (beware, boggle, chicken out, dread, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shun, shy, wince, withdraw). (various references)

Turkmen 

яygrylmak (be shy, waver), daralmak, зьrьюmek (shrivel, wither). (various references)

Ukrainian

скорочуватися (become shorter, diminish, dwindle, shorten, thin off), скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten), морщитися (cower, crimple), збігатися (coincide, concur, consist, jibe), збігання (shrinkage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự co lại (shrank, shrunk). (various references)

Welsh

cryddu (pine), crebachu (pucker, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references)

adtenuabit, adtenuabitur, adtenuabuntur, adtenuaris, adtenuasti, adtenuati, adtenuatus, adtenuetur, decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque, emarcuerunt, emarcuit, resiliet. (various references)

scrincan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shrink": shrinkable, shrinkage, shrinkages, shrinker, shrinkers, shrinking, shrinks. (additional references)

Words ending with "shrink": nonshrink, preshrink. (additional references)

Words containing "shrink": headshrinker, headshrinkers, nonshrinkable, preshrinking, preshrinks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shrink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schmink, Schrank, schrenk, Sharansky, shink, shirnp, shrick, shrik, shring, shrinker, shrinky, Shurin, srink, strink, Zhorik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kirns, knish, rinks, shirk.

-2 letters: hins, hisn, inks, irks, khis, kins, kirn, kirs, kris, rink, rins, risk, shin, shri, sinh, sink, skin.

-3 letters: hin, his, ink, ins, irk, khi, kin, kir, rin, sin, sir, ski, sri.

-4 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si.

+1 letter: rankish, shrinks.

+2 letters: crankish, gherkins, inkhorns, prankish, rethinks, sharking, shirking, shrinker, thinkers.

+3 letters: antishark, kashering, koshering, nonshrink, preshrink, sharkskin, shrieking, shrinkage, shrinkers, shrinking, shunpiker, stinkhorn, trunkfish.

+4 letters: checkreins, handiworks, hyperlinks, jinricksha, jinrikisha, kingfisher, kurbashing, overthinks, prankishly, preshrinks, rainchecks, rakishness, rethinkers, sharkskins, shikarring, shrinkable, shrinkages, shunpikers, skreeghing, skreighing, stinkhorns, thickeners.

+5 letters: cornhusking, groupthinks, hoodwinkers, huckstering, jinrickshas, jinrikishas, kingfishers, resketching, skirmishing, trunkfishes, workmanship.