Found 3 items, similar to Shrinks.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: shrink
mengerut, mengerutkan, mengkerut, menyusutkan, susut
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shrink
shrink
n : a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn:
psychiatrist,
head-shrinker]
v 1: wither, especially with a loss of moisture;
“The fruit dried
and shriveled” [syn:
shrivel,
shrivel up,
wither]
2: draw back, as with fear or pain;
“she flinched when they
showed the slaughtering of the calf” [syn:
flinch,
squinch,
funk,
cringe,
wince,
recoil,
quail]
3: reduce in size; reduce physically;
“Hot water will shrink
the sweater”;
“Can you shrink this image?” [syn:
reduce]
4: become smaller or draw together;
“The fabric shrank”;
“The
balloon shrank” [syn:
contract] [ant:
expand,
stretch]
5: decrease in size, range, or extent;
“His earnings shrank”;
“My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me”
[syn:
shrivel]
[also:
shrunken,
shrunk,
shrank]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shrink
Shrink
\Shrink\, v. i. [imp.
Shrankor
Shrunkp. p.
Shrunk
or
Shrunken, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shrinking.] [OE.
shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF.
Shrimp.]
1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
become compacted.
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And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
lay. --Spenser.
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I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon.
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Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak.
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And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
--Dryden.
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All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge.
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2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.
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They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
from the task. --Jowett
(Thucyd.)
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3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrink
\Shrink\, v. t.
1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by
imersing it in boiling water.
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2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. --Milton.
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To shrink on (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly
around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a
tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made
slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded
by heat till it can be slipped into place.
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Shrink
\Shrink\, n.
1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil;
withdrawal.
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Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
That I had less to praise. --Leigh Hunt.
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2. [Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for
psychiatrist.] a psychiatrist. [Coll.]
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