shrink 音标拼音: [ʃr'ɪŋk]
n . 收缩,萎缩,畏缩
vi . 收缩,退缩,萎缩,缩小,畏缩
vt . 使收缩,使缩小
收缩,萎缩,畏缩收缩,退缩,萎缩,缩小,畏缩使收缩,使缩小
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shrink n 1 :
a physician who specializes in psychiatry [
synonym :
{
psychiatrist }, {
head -
shrinker }, {
shrink }]
v 1 :
wither ,
as with a loss of moisture ; "
The fruit dried and shriveled " [
synonym : {
shrivel }, {
shrivel up }, {
shrink },
{
wither }]
2 :
draw back ,
as with fear or pain ; "
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf " [
synonym : {
flinch },
{
squinch }, {
funk }, {
cringe }, {
shrink }, {
wince }, {
recoil },
{
quail }]
3 :
reduce in size ;
reduce physically ; "
Hot water will shrink the sweater "; "
Can you shrink this image ?" [
synonym : {
shrink },
{
reduce }]
4 :
become smaller or draw together ; "
The fabric shrank "; "
The balloon shrank " [
synonym : {
shrink }, {
contract }] [
ant : {
expand },
{
spread out }, {
stretch }]
5 :
decrease in size ,
range ,
or extent ; "
His earnings shrank ";
"
My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me " [
synonym :
{
shrink }, {
shrivel }]
Shrink \
Shrink \,
v .
i . [
imp . {
Shrank }
or {
Shrunk }
p .
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 .
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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 \
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 \
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 .]
[
PJC ]
193 Moby Thesaurus words for "
shrink ":
Sanforize ,
abate ,
ablate ,
about the bush ,
ache ,
agonize ,
ail ,
analyst ,
anguish ,
attenuate ,
avoid ,
avoid the limelight ,
balk at ,
bate ,
be eaten away ,
beat around ,
beg the question ,
behavior therapist ,
blanch ,
blench ,
blink ,
blush unseen ,
boggle ,
clinical psychologist ,
compress ,
concentrate ,
condense ,
constrict ,
consume ,
consume away ,
contract ,
corrode ,
cower ,
cringe ,
crouch ,
crumble ,
decline ,
decrease ,
deliquesce ,
demur ,
deplete ,
depreciate ,
desiccate ,
die away ,
diminish ,
dissipate ,
dive ,
dodge ,
drain ,
draw back ,
draw in ,
dribble away ,
drift away ,
droop ,
drop ,
drop off ,
dry up ,
duck ,
dwindle ,
ebb ,
emacerate ,
emaciate ,
equivocate ,
erode ,
evade ,
fade ,
fade away ,
fall ,
fall away ,
fall back ,
fall off ,
fall short ,
falter ,
feel pain ,
feel the pangs ,
fence ,
fight shy of ,
flag ,
flinch ,
funk ,
go ,
go away ,
grimace ,
hang back ,
hang off ,
have a misery ,
have qualms ,
headshrinker ,
hedge ,
hem and haw ,
hesitate ,
hold off ,
huddle ,
hurt ,
hypnotherapist ,
jib ,
languish ,
lessen ,
let up ,
macerate ,
make bones about ,
melt away ,
move away ,
move off ,
narcotherapist ,
parch ,
parry ,
pause ,
pine ,
plummet ,
plunge ,
pound ,
preshrink ,
psychiatrist ,
psychoanalyst ,
psychoanalyzer ,
psychotherapeutist ,
psychotherapist ,
pull away ,
pull back ,
pull in ,
pull out ,
pussyfoot ,
put off ,
quail ,
recede ,
recoil ,
reel back ,
retire ,
retract ,
retreat ,
retrocede ,
run low ,
sag ,
scruple ,
sear ,
sheer off ,
shift ,
shift off ,
shoot ,
shrink back ,
shrink from ,
shrinker ,
shrivel ,
shrivel up ,
shy ,
shy at ,
shy away ,
shy off ,
sidestep ,
sink ,
slink ,
smart ,
squander ,
squinch ,
stand off ,
start ,
start aside ,
start back ,
step aside ,
stick at ,
stickle ,
strain ,
subside ,
suffer ,
swerve ,
tail off ,
thin ,
thrill ,
throb ,
tingle ,
turn aside ,
twinge ,
twitch ,
wane ,
ward off ,
waste ,
waste away ,
waver ,
weaken ,
wear ,
wear away ,
weasel ,
weasel out ,
weazen ,
widen the distance ,
wilt ,
wince ,
withdraw ,
withdraw from ,
wither ,
wizen ,
writhe
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