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(v)
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
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(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
To become completely shriveled; to completely dry up and become wrinkled.
(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
(intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
(intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.
To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
(intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
(intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
(n)
(slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
(transitive) To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).
The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
(orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
The act of something being lowered.
(transitive) To make smaller.
(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
(adj)
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
(transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
The process of becoming narrow.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
The act of declining or refusing something.
An act in which a company downsizes or is downsized.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
(ambitransitive) To narrow, especially by application of pressure.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
(chemistry) That causes reduction.
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
(intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
(transitive) To pull (something) back or back inside.
Capable of being retracted; retractile.
The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
(intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
(ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
(chiefly derogatory, slang) A person who is psychotic, psychopathic, or (broadly) otherwise insane.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
The material in which something is wrapped.
(transitive, rare) To treat with a therapy.
Someone who analyzes.
(transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
An expert in the field of psychology.
A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
(transitive, reflexive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
To be or make a bridge over something.
(countable) The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
A slender wax candle.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Obsolete spelling of shrink. [(transitive) To cause to become smaller.]
(intransitive, transitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
(mycology slang) A pile of leaves with a mushroom underneath.
(ambitransitive) To make or become small; diminish
(intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink.
(ambitransitive) To shrink excessively.
(ambitransitive, economics, informal) To make a product smaller while continuing to market it at the same price.
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
(transitive) To restore (something shrunken) to its original size.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To shrink again.
(ambitransitive) To reduce weight; to make or become thinner.
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
(West Country) To shrink; to shrivel.
To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
(computing) An operation that changes the size of something.
(transitive) To make small or less significant.
(rare, humorous) To reduce or shrink; to make or become smaller.
(transitive) To cut down or reduce.
(transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of.
To reduce in size; to downsize.
(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
A surname from Irish.
(transitive, obsolete) To administer or govern.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
(intransitive) To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
(transitive) To reduce to subminiature scale.
(transitive) To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.