shrink
IPA: ʃrˈɪŋk
noun
- Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
- (uncountable, business) Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
- (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
- (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
- (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
- (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
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Examples of "shrink" in Sentences
- It shrinks and becomes desiccated.
- The number of priests are shrinking.
- How do we shrink the size of the picture
- Should we shrink the size of the locator map
- Would someone please shrink the size of the top half of the table
- Involution of an organ is the shrinking or return to a former size.
- The Buddha allowed the lion to shrink down to the size of the marmoset.
- This further reduced caste divisions by shrinking the size of the community.
- The extraterrestrial cheese gave Chester the power to shrink in size at will.
- Then it was simply a matter of shrinking the size of the target in small steps.