Antonyms for Shrinkingshrink·ing

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1. shrinking

   Antonyms:
   adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

   Synonyms:
   afraid, cowardly, cringing, faint-hearted, fearful, frightened, pusillanimous, timid, timorous

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1. shrinking, shrinkagenoun

   process or result of becoming less or smaller

   "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"

   Synonyms:
   shoplifting, shrinkage, shrinking

2. shrinkingnoun

   the act of becoming less

   Synonyms:
   shrinkage

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1. shrinkingadjective

   Synonyms:
   coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring

How to use Shrinking in a sentence?

1. Eric Edelman:

   All those things are going to be important, how do you do that, invest in all those capabilities and maintain an ability to fight today, if your budget is shrinking ?

2. Manfred Weber:

   We are facing a shrinking centre, so what I would ask us to do to is to join our forces to work together from now.

3. Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992:

   We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

4. Marwan Shurrab:

   Turnover has been low, and markets will continue to lack liquidity given the month of Ramadan and the summer holiday overlap, which usually sees shrinking volumes.

5. Ran Baratz:

   This conflict is not due to' friction' between Israelis and Palestinians. It was there before and it'll be there after, even if The Left makes us leave [ the West Bank ], you think you're shrinking the conflict, but for the other [ Palestinian ] side it's just a lull between wars where they're improving their position.

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