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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
- intransitive verb. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
- intransitive verb. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
- transitive verb. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
- transitive verb. To draw back; to withdraw.
- noun. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
- noun. a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- verb. decrease in size, range, or extent
"His earnings shrank"
"My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- verb. become smaller or draw together
"The fabric shrank"
"The balloon shrank"
- verb. reduce in size; reduce physically
"Hot water will shrink the sweater"
"Can you shrink this image?"
- verb. wither, as with a loss of moisture
"The fruit dried and shriveled"
- verb. draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
Synonyms
psychiatrist, shrivel, contract, reduce, wither, cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince
Common word forms
shrinks, shrinker, shrinking, shrinkable
Words from these letters
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