shrink : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shrink	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrink n a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink] v wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" Synonym(s): shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" Synonym(s): flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" Synonym(s): shrink, reduce become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" Synonym(s): shrink, contract Antonym(s): expand, spread out, stretch decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" Synonym(s): shrink, shrivel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shrink \Shrink\, v. t. 1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. 2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. --Milton. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. 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. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shrink \Shrink\, n. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. --Leigh Hunt.