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[ shrangk ] / ʃræŋk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shrank ON THESAURUS.COM
verba simple past tense of shrink. Words nearby shrankshoyu, shp, shpt., shr., shraddha, shrank, shrapnel, shreadhead, shred, shredded wheat, shredder Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shrankDenison admits that he shrank from doing the project in the run-up to his birthday last year, when he had planned to start it. Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Email eliminated the voice; text messages could be sent quicker but shrank the mail. I Don't Text on Shabbas|Gershom Gorenberg|June 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST The number of 18- to 34-year-old Americans shrank by nine million during his watch. Bill Clinton’s Bravura Convention Speech Latest Step in His and Hillary’s Rise|Gail Sheehy|September 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST To survive, they shrank, shedding workers and retiring around 500 planes to desert graveyards. United-Continental Web Meltdown: Why Can’t Airlines Get It Right?|Barbara S. Peterson|March 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Then, because it was useless, redundant, only destructive, or so it seemed, she shrank back again, defeated. Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir|Jeanette Winterson|March 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST She shrank from his touch, literally into the arms upon which Philadelphus rested his weight. The City of Delight|Elizabeth Miller But Liz shrank away, regretting her provocative glances now that she saw the kind of men she had to do with. Earth's Enigmas|Charles G. D. Roberts Joan had never seen him appear like this, and she shrank as from another and forbidding side of the man. The Border Legion|Zane Grey Joe wished there was some one whom he could ask, but he shrank from taking into his confidence any of the members of the team. Baseball Joe in the Central League|Lester Chadwick Doggie had not kicked it because he had never kicked a football in his life and shrank from an exhibition of incompetence. The Rough Road|William John Locke
British Dictionary definitions for shrankCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shrankwane, dwindle, shorten, reduce, drop off, fall off, wither, decrease, lessen, diminish, narrow, shrivel, weaken, recede, retreat, wrinkle, compress, condense, deflate, concentrate |