Crossword clues for shrink
shrink
- Get smaller
- Lose stature
- Reduce in size
- Psychiatrist (slang)
- Draw up
- Therapist, informally
- Psychiatrist, in slang
- Decrease in size
- Who rocker sees after grueling tour, perhaps
- What pupils do in bright light
- Lessen — mind expert?
- Hide in the corner
- Doctor with a couch
- Decrease — therapist
- Analyst, familiarly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrink \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.]
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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.
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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.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.]
--Shak.
Shrink \Shrink\, v. t.
To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
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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.
Shrink \Shrink\, n.
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The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
--Leigh Hunt. [Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for psychiatrist.] a psychiatrist. [Coll.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scrincan "to draw in the limbs, contract, shrivel up; wither, pine away" (class III strong verb; past tense scranc, past participle scruncen), from Proto-Germanic *skrink- (cognates: Middle Dutch schrinken), probably from PIE root *(s)ker- (3) "to turn, bend" (see ring (n.1)).\n
\nOriginally with causal shrench (compare drink/ drench). Sense of "become reduced in size" recorded from late 13c. The meaning "draw back, recoil" (early 14c.) perhaps was suggested by the behavior of snails. Transitive sense, "cause to shrink" is from late 14c. Shrink-wrap is attested from 1961 (shrinking-wrap from 1959). Shrinking violet "shy person" attested from 1882.
"an act of shrinking," 1580s, from shrink (v.). Slang meaning "psychiatrist," (1966) is from head-shrinker.
Wiktionary
n. 1 shrinkage; contraction; recoil. 2 (context slang sometimes pejorative English) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to become smaller. 2 (context intransitive English) To become smaller; to contract. 3 (context intransitive English) To cower or flinch. 4 (context transitive English) To draw back; to withdraw. 5 (context intransitive figuratively English) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
WordNet
n. a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker]
v. wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, wither]
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]
reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: reduce]
become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]
decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: shrivel]
Wikipedia
Shrink is the fourth album by German indie rock/electronica group The Notwist. The album is notable for its movement away from the group's punk origins and including elements of electronica, ambient, and jazz.
Shrink is a 2009 American independent comedy-drama film about a psychologist who treats members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, California. It was directed by Jonas Pate, written by Thomas Moffett, and stars Kevin Spacey and along with an ensemble cast. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and includes music by Jackson Browne.
Shrink may refer to:
- Miniaturization
- Resizing (fiction)
- "Shrink" or "head shrinker", slang term for a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse, case manager or therapist.
- Shrinkage (accounting), retail term for any merchandise unaccounted for at the time of inventory
- Shrink (album), album by German indie rock/electronica group The Notwist
- Shrink, a Yu-Gi-Oh! card, printed in the TCG as a Shonen Jump Championship promo
- Shrink (Experiment 001), an experiment from Lilo & Stitch
- Shrink (Slade), sixth book in the Special X series by Michael Slade, also known as Primal Scream
- Shrink (film), independent drama film starring Kevin Spacey
Usage examples of "shrink".
Ugly and at once it shrinks within itself, denies the thing, turns away from it, not accordant, resenting it.
And they shrunk with affright from his ugly sight, Whose work they delighted to do.
It drew inward, shrinking from the touch of the silk to avoid allergic reaction.
Shrinking himself, crying curses for the necessity, Braggen lashed their balked rumps with the ends of his reins and drove them to forsake their sound instincts.
It seemed that Beryn had shrunk into himself, turned old and grey and somehow smaller.
Slowly, her world had shrunken until the health of her horse and the blessedly empty path behind encompassed her entire world.
The nine shrinking battalions left trails of crushed and bloodied grass as they crawled northwards and the crawl was threatening to come to a full halt when all that would be left of the division would be nine bands of survivors clustered round their precious colours.
Hanging to the hard chrome rail, I shrank from the pitiless, bottomless mystery of infinite space.
The Bravo listened in silence, though his companion, who, at another moment, and under other emotions, would have avoided him as one shrinks from contagion, saw, on looking mournfully up into his face, that the muscles were slightly agitated, and that a paleness crossed his cheeks, which the light of the moon rendered ghastly.
Black Death was, of course, a shrunken population, which, owing to wars, brigandage, and recurrence of the plague, declined even further by the end of the 14th century.
Ben Tremont let out a roar, and every broncho boy threw his rifle to his shoulder, and the Indians shrank back in silence.
Forms are rigidly insisted upon, and the reputation of the church for exclusiveness is so well known that those in the humbler walks of life shrink from entering its doors.
Gibbon extruded new organs to probe it and finally shrank away from its pumps and tanks and shielded chambers as if they had been alien monsters crouching.
Before we know it we become demoralized, and shrink from the tonic of the sudden change to sharp weather, as the steamed hydropathic patient does from the plunge.
She had the freak coloring that marked out the hypersensitive empath, and Reidel shrank before the intense wisdom and compassion in those wide eyes.