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shrink

English

  1. 🔊 a physician who specializes in psychiatry
  2. 🔊 decrease in size, range, or extent
    “His earnings shrank”
  3. 🔊 become smaller or draw together
    “The fabric shrank”
  4. 🔊 reduce in size
    “Hot water will shrink the sweater”
  5. 🔊 wither, as with a loss of moisture
    “The fruit dried and shriveled”
  6. 🔊 draw back, as with fear or pain
    “she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 encoger to shrink
  2. 🔊 engurrar to shrink
  3. 🔊 revenir to shrink, reduce

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