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All shrink antonyms

shrink
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verb shrink

  • coarsen — If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.
  • come of age — If something comes of age, it reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people.
  • augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
  • gelling — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
  • hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • do well — be successful
  • fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
  • go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
  • maturate — Pathology. to suppurate.
  • luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
  • bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
  • curdled — Containing curds.
  • begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
  • coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • let out — (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
  • manifolded — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
  • hyping — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
  • come over — If a feeling or desire, especially a strange or surprising one, comes over you, it affects you strongly.
  • mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
  • birthed — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
  • bulk up — If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
  • kick off — the act of kicking; a blow or thrust with the foot or feet.
  • distend — Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
  • mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • crane — A crane is a large machine that moves heavy things by lifting them in the air.
  • live it up — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
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