单词 | shrink back |
释义 | shrink back (once / 2182 pages) v WORD FAMILY shrink back: shrank back, shrinking back, shrinks back, shrunk back USAGE EXAMPLESIt shrinks back from the sidewalk on three sides. Los Angeles Times(Oct 25, 2016) For analytic purposes, black women were oversampled and then shrunk back to their proper proportion of the population. New York Times(Sep 16, 2016) Gilly shrank back, bumping into Trotter’s huge breast, which made her jump forward again quickly. Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) v pull away from a source of disgust or fear Syn|Hyper retract cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince draw back, as with fear or pain |
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