All shrink antonyms
shrink
S s verb shrink
- overembellish β Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- go to town β a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- misreport β to report incorrectly or falsely.
- display β to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- lasted β to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- huff and puff β be out of breath
- accumulate β When you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time.
- caking β Present participle of cake.
- overemphasise β (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- germinate β to begin to grow or develop.
- bug out β to depart hurriedly; run away; retreat
- overemphasised β Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- drag one's feet β to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- balloon β A balloon is a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
- go great guns β to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- branch out β If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- bugging out β Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- overemphasize β to emphasize excessively.
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- escalate β Increase rapidly.
- blow up β If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- make an impression β have impact
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- expand β explain
- overemphasized β Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- go up β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- caked β If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
- effloresce β to burst into bloom; blossom.
- hyperbolize β to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- overestimate β to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- deal with β When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
- gel β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- enhearten β To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten.
- clean up β If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- build β If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- add up β If facts or events do not add up, they make you confused about a situation because they do not seem to be consistent. If something that someone has said or done adds up, it is reasonable and sensible.
- intensate β (transitive) To intensify.
- exaggerate β Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- dilate β to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- hit the roof β the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- flourish β to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- bloom β A bloom is the flower on a plant.
- forgather β to gather together; convene; assemble.
- cubed β cut into cubes
- gelled β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- overestimated β Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- flower β the blossom of a plant.
- blossom β Blossom is the flowers that appear on a tree before the fruit.
- cubing β a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.