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shrink | American Dictionary

shrink
verb
us/ʃrɪŋk/past tenseshrankus/ʃræŋk/shrunkus/ʃrʌŋk/ | past participleshrunkus/ʃrʌŋk/shrunkenus/ˈʃrʌŋ·kən/

shrinkverb (BECOME SMALLER)

[ I/T ]
to become smaller or cause something to become smaller:
[ I ]The show’s audience has shrunk in the last few months.
[ T ]I shrank my sweater by putting it in the dryer!

shrinkverb (MOVE AWAY)

[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
to move away from something unpleasant or frightening:
My first reaction was to shrink in disgust at the sight of it.
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
If you shrink from something, you avoid it:
Kate’s a good worker, but she seems to shrink from responsibility.
shrink
noun[ C ]
 slangus/ʃrɪŋk/

shrinknoun[C] (DOCTOR)

a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or psychoanalyst

shrink | Business English

shrink
verb
uk /ʃrɪŋk/usshrank | shrunk
[ I ]
to become smaller:
Investors fear that profit margins will shrink during the coming quarter.
shrink by sthThe economy shrunk by .04% in real terms.
shrink to sthOur share of the US market has shrunk to 27%.
[ T ]
to make something smaller:
We hope the measures will save money and shrink the company's carbon footprint.

Examples of shrink

shrink
The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
He noted that this contract curve was shrinking as the number of agents was growing, leading eventually to the competitive equilibrium.
As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.
As shrinks further, the only interior equilibrium that still exists is nonmonetary, but it disappears as becomes sufficiently low.
As anticipated, the impact of costs shrinks as the plan grows larger but the effect differs by plan type.
In this case the implementations of functions use interval arithmetic and approximations to transcendental functions that get more accurate as the input interval shrinks.
Since usage counts can increase (by shrinking inlining or record selection) as well as decrease (by any shrinking rule), this might seem dangerous.
In the developed world, many enterprises increasingly operate in situations in which traditional assets, (physical and monetary) are of shrinking importance to business success.
In other words, a base of reduplication is never shrunk down to size in a reduplicative context in order to better satisfy base-reduplicant identity.
In the region of the wake, the plasma shrinks in size, and forms a narrow plasma channel.
The same tendency to form rapidly shrinking sub-sheets was found and described in [27, 36].
Without fanfare, the official consensus estimate of the size of the problem is shrunk.
An object in space possesses three degrees of freedom that determine its spatial relationship with other objects, namely, transition, rotation, and scaling enlargements or shrinking!.
As we can see this is not true, but the difference in the constant in the exponent shrinks surprisingly quickly as m becomes large.
There is also a well-defined temporal sequence where a given cell grows, then exchanges fluid with a neighbouring cell, and then shrinks.
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