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Shrinking   /ʃrˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Shrinking

noun
1.
Process or result of becoming less or smaller.  Synonym: shrinkage.
2.
The act of becoming less.


Shrink

verb
(past shrank; past part. shrunk; pres. part. shrinking)
1.
Wither, as with a loss of moisture.  Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither.
2.
Draw back, as with fear or pain.  Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince.
3.
Reduce in size; reduce physically.  Synonym: reduce.  "Can you shrink this image?"
4.
Become smaller or draw together.  Synonym: contract.  "The balloon shrank"
5.
Decrease in size, range, or extent.  Synonym: shrivel.  "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"



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"Shrinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... of yours, I hope? I know it is dangerous, so late and alone," said Rose, shrinking behind the big chair as Charlie approached the fire, carefully avoiding ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... to haul the supplies for the North West Mounted Police this spring. I'll be in Fort Macleod 'most as soon as you, I reckon. What is it, Winnie?" he questioned, as the child drew shrinking closer ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... the line. When dry, let two persons stretch the goods as curtains are stretched, fold it with the wrong side of the material out and iron double with the seam running through the center of the goods on the length of the material. In shrinking colored prints add turpentine to the water, and it will set the color. A teaspoonful is used ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... the road to Cecily's right. She did not see him yet, for she looked up to Merrion. He took a step forward, his tread sounding loud on the road. There was a sudden turn of Cecily's head. A moment's silence followed. He came up to her, holding out his hand. She drew back, shrinking from it. Laying her hands on the gate of the bridge, she seemed to set it as a fence between them. Her voice reached Mina's ears, low, yet as distinct as though she had been by her side, and full of a terrified alarm and ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... whole kid-glove gang have n't been able to do," he avowed. And having delivered himself of that ultimatum, he promptly relaxed into his old-time impassiveness, like a dog snapping from his kennel and shrinking back into its shadows. At the same moment that Blake's thick forefinger again prodded the buzzer-button at his desk end the watching woman could see the relapse into official wariness. It was as though he had put the shutters up ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer


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