All shrink synonyms

verb shrink

• caving — the sport of climbing in and exploring caves
• fold up — a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• downed — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
• offing — the state or fact of being off.
• cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
• downsize — company: make redundancies
• go to pot — a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
• dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• weltering — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
• make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
• fossilized — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
• draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• ease off — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• fade away — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• fossilise — Alternative spelling of fossilize.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
• flinch — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
• decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
• wither — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
• outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
• wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
• desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
• make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
• atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
• fossilised — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
• go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• die off — a sudden, natural perishing of large numbers of a species, population, or community.
• implode — to burst inward (opposed to explode).
• die out — If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.
• atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
• knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
• hold down — 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.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• offed — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
• be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
• hold off — 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.
• miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
• lessen — to become less.