shrink
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(verb) decrease in size, range, or extent; ""His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" |
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Synonyms: shrivel |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) draw together; "The fabric shrank" |
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Synonyms: contract |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, flex, lessen |
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Antonyms: stretch |
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(verb) reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
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Synonyms: reduce |
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Related Words: contract, decrease, depopulate, desolate, lessen, miniaturise, miniaturize, minify, reduce, reef, scale down |
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(verb) wither, esp. with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" |
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Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
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Related Words: atrophy, decrease, die back, die down, diminish, dry up, fall, lessen, mummify |
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(noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry |
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Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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Related Words: alienist, analyst, medical specialist, psychoanalyst, specialist |
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(verb) draw back, as with fear |
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Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
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Related Words: move, retract, shrink back |
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