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ShrinkShrink Shrink, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. 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. Shrink
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.
ShrinkShrink 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.
Meaning of Shrinks from wikipedia
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American comedy series Shrinks (TV series), a 1991
British drama series Shrinking (TV series), a 2023
American comedy series Shrink, a Yu-Gi-Oh! card, printed...
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Shrinking is an
American comedy drama television series created by Bill Lawrence,
Jason Segel, and
Brett Goldstein. The
series stars Segel as a grieving...
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original on
April 9, 2014.
Retrieved May 17, 2014.
George Shrinks Episode Guide at Big
Cartoon DataBase George Shrinks at IMDb Retrojunk:
George Shrinks...
- "half-node
shrink")
before further shrink to the
lower ITRS-defined
nodes occurs,
which helps save
additional R&D cost. The
choice to
perform die
shrinks to either...
- The
Shrink Is In is a 2001
American comedy film
directed by
Richard Benjamin, and
starring Courteney Cox and
David Arquette.
Samantha is a
travel journalist...
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space is said to have the
shrinking property or to be a
shrinking space if
every open
cover admits a
shrinking. A
shrinking of an open
cover is another...
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offering environmental sealing protection. Heat-
shrink tubing is
ordinarily made of a polyolefin,
which shrinks radially (but not longitudinally) when heated...
- Rose –
Roberta Lucinda Curtis –
Libby Frankie Jordan –
Glenda Bene****
Blythe –
David Jennie Stoller –
Rachel "
Shrinks (1991)".
Shrinks at IMDb v t e...
- is Treehorn,
whose parents barely notice when he
shrinks.
Treehorn is a
young boy who
begins shrinking one day. The book
opens with the line "Something...
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adding compression. He
introduced it
alongside a pkzip-like
program called ShrinkIt for
Apple II systems,
which he
later migrated to the
Apple IIGS as GS-Shrinkit...
