SHRINK


Meaning of SHRINK in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

shrinking violet

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

away

The Old World was saved and the Realm of Chaos shrank away to the north.

It's funny how ideas shrink away when people are put on the spot.

When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.

And with no replacement I was just shrinking away .

back

Manville shrank back behind a display rack for a moment as his eyes moved towards the store window.

She opened the door, and shrank back with a scream.

She saw the children shrink back as she spoke.

He began slumping over again, and his iron ball shrank back to a hand.

As Rain and Oliver approached the three shrank back , but when Rain looked round she saw the pedlar peering after her.

Fascinating, I think and begin to shrink back into my bag.

They surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground and then shrank back .

Terrified the little boy shrank back , afraid of the helmet and its fierce nodding crest.

■ NOUN

share

Its domestic share shrank from nearly 10 percent to just over 7 percent.

But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.

Their market share is shrinking considerably, and more to come yet.

size

As time passed, the collarbone also shrank in size , hinting at the development of a free-swinging shoulder.

He has been a steadfast supporter of balanced budgets and shrinking the size of government.

When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards.

His stomach had shrunk to the size of a walnut.

Jez San finds that games consoles are shrinking in size but expanding in range and addictiveness potential..

He begins to fantasize that if he tried hard he could shrink to a tiny size and crawl inside the set.

Counties Leitrim, Louth and Mayo have been named after towns which nowadays have shrunk to the size of villages.

The monocle caused the moon to shrink in size by blocking out the rooftop on the horizon.

■ VERB

begin

And already, the rush hour queues have begun to shrink .

Fascinating, I think and begin to shrink back into my bag.

The multi-billion-pound business had already taken a severe thrashing last year, as the outside world began to shrink away from growing violence.

The back tyre mimed a shallow S, then the bike straightened up, began to shrink .

His energy levels increased and the walnut-sized swellings in his neck and groin began to shrink .

continue

Traffic has continued to shrink even though the city of Dallas repaved a runway and built a new control tower.

And as things continue to get smaller, their cost of reproduction continues to shrink because less material is involved.

But the city itself has continued to shrink , and unemployment there has remained at double the Ohio rate.

seem

Everything about her seemed to have shrunk except her eyes, which were huge, inky pools that dwarfed her small features.

I tend to be work-oriented and my living quarters seem to have shrunk , year by year, to this miniature state.

Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained.

This explains why even our most effective efforts to move people into jobs seem never to shrink the welfare rolls.

The whole business seemed to have shrunk in importance to the size of a peanut anyway.

With her mouth shut her face seemed to shrink .

Her body seemed to have shrunk since Anthony's death, giving her the appearance of an old woman.

The flesh on her face seemed to shrink on her skull.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Don't wash that sweater in the machine - it'll shrink .

My sweater shrank in the dryer.

Oh no! My skirt has shrunk!

Profits have been shrinking over the last year.

We hope these reforms will shrink the nation's budget deficit.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After 5 months of chemotherapy treatment like this, the tumours shrank.

As the family has shrunk it has also lost some of its traditional functions to the public world.

As we have already noted, he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence.

Its domestic share shrank from nearly 10 percent to just over 7 percent.

She was convinced he was shrinking.

So mounds of snow never shrink , they turn into icebergs.

There has been a steadily shrinking supply of it.

This explains why even our most effective efforts to move people into jobs seem never to shrink the welfare rolls.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

see

If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.

Richard saw a shrink , who gave him a prescription for antidepressants.

I don't have to see a shrink .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

That guy's crazy - he ought to see a shrink .

The shrinks at the hospital said they think Gary needs therapy.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He went to another shrink , who prescribed another set of antidepressants.

Richard saw a shrink , who gave him a prescription for antidepressants.

She was sorry for him, but she was no shrink .

Willis returns as a criminal on the run, hunted by cops, believed only by a shrink played by Madeleine Stowe.

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