Found 2 items, similar to shrank.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shrank 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] shrank See shrink
English → English (gcide) Definition: Shrank Shrank \Shrank\, imp. of Shrink. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. [1913 Webster] What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. [1913 Webster] They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) [1913 Webster] 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]