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.