Dictionary Entry
shrink
shrink is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
- 2intransitive verb
To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
- 3intransitive verb
To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
- 5transitive verb
To draw back; to withdraw.
- 6noun
The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
- 7noun
a physician who specializes in psychiatry
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- 8verb
decrease in size, range, or extent
"His earnings shrank"
"My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
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- 9verb
become smaller or draw together
"The fabric shrank"
"The balloon shrank"
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- 10verb
reduce in size; reduce physically
"Hot water will shrink the sweater"
"Can you shrink this image?"
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- 11verb
wither, as with a loss of moisture
"The fruit dried and shriveled"
- 12verb
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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