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decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" a physician who specializes in psychiatry wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" |
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