Shinkverb
To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
Shrinkverb
(transitive) To cause to become smaller.
‘The dryer shrank my sweater.’;
Shrinkverb
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
‘This garment will shrink when wet.’;
Shrinkverb
(intransitive) To cower or flinch.
‘Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.’;
Shrinkverb
(transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
Shrinkverb
To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
Shrinkverb
(intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
Shrinknoun
Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
Shrinknoun
A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
‘You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.’; ‘My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.’;
Shrinknoun
Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
Shrinkverb
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
‘And on a broken reed he still did stayHis feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.’; ‘I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.’; ‘Against this fire do I shrink up.’; ‘And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.’; ‘All the boards did shrink.’;
Shrinkverb
To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
‘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.’;
Shrinkverb
To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
Shrinkverb
To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
Shrinkverb
To draw back; to withdraw.
‘The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.’;
Shrinknoun
The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
‘Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,That I had less to praise.’;
Shrinknoun
a psychiatrist.
Shrinknoun
a physician who specializes in psychiatry
Shrinkverb
wither, especially with a loss of moisture;
‘The fruit dried and shriveled’;
Shrinkverb
draw back, as with fear or pain;
‘she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf’;
Shrinkverb
reduce in size; reduce physically;
‘Hot water will shrink the sweater’; ‘Can you shrink this image?’;
Shrinkverb
become smaller or draw together;
‘The fabric shrank’; ‘The balloon shrank’;
Shrinkverb
decrease in size, range, or extent;
‘His earnings shrank’; ‘My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me’;
