SHRINK
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Shrink (?), v. i. [imp. Shrank (?) or Shrunk (?) p. p. Shrunk or Shrunken (&unr_;), 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.
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And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
Spenser.
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I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
Bacon.
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Against this fire do I shrink up.
Shak.
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And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
Dryden.
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All the boards did shrink.
Coleridge.
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2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
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What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right.
Pope.
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They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
Jowett (Thucyd.)
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3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] Shak.
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Shrink, v. t. 1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
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2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.
Milton.
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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.
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Shrink, n. 1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
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Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
That I had less to praise.
Leigh Hunt.
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2. [Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for psychiatrist.] a psychiatrist. [Coll.]
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