Inflected forms: shrank ( shrngk) or shrunk ( shrngk), shrunk or shrunk·en ( shrngkn), shrink·ing, shrinks
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To become constricted from heat, moisture, or cold. 2. To become reduced in amount or value; dwindle: His savings quickly shrank.3. To draw back instinctively, as from something alarming; recoil. 4. To show reluctance; hesitate: shrink from making such a sacrifice.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To cause to shrink.
NOUN:
1a. The act of shrinking. b. The degree to which something shrinks; shrinkage. 2.Slang A psychotherapist.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English shrinken, to wither, shrivel up, from Old English scrincan. See sker-2 in Appendix I.
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