Dictionary Definition
shrink n : a physician who specializes in
psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker]
Verb
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]shrunken adj
1 lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or
illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with
withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite
his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"
[syn: shriveled,
shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened]
2 reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
"our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on
she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying
power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled]
3 reduced in size by being drawn together; "the
shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear" [syn: shrunk]shrunken See shrink
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
reduced in size as a result of shrinkage
- Hungarian: összezsugorodott
Verb
shrunken- past participle of shrink
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb,
abated, ablated, atrophied, attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, desiccated, diminished, dissipated, dried-up,
dropped, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, expended, fallen, forfeit, forfeited, gone, incipient, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, meager, midget, miniaturized, nanoid, out the window, papery, parched, parchmenty, preshrunk, pygmy, reduced, retrenched, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scaled-down, scraggy, scrubby, sear, sere, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up,
shrunk, smaller, squandered, squat, stunted, thin, undersize, undersized, used, used up, wasted, wasted away,
watered-down, weakened,
weazened, wilted, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, wrinkled