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

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. John Fleck:

   The vast majority of this water is used for irrigated agriculture across the basin ; there's just no way around the footprint of irrigated agriculture shrinking.

2. Eric Liu:

   It is the rapid shrinking of China’s political space over the past decade that pushed him to the forefront of so-called anti-Communist Party activities.

3. Dick Pound:

   We knew it would be a stretch for them but if they devoted themselves, heart and soul, to getting it done, it would be possible., yet here we are four months later and I think somehow they must have convinced themselves that it would go away... time is shrinking.

4. Professor Karsten Koenig:

   So far we've got interesting results from three astronauts. It seems that there is a strong production of collagen; so suddenly these astronauts have more collagen. It means there is some sort of anti-ageing effect, at least in the dermis - the lower part of the skin. And we found that the epidermis, in particular the part of the living cells, that this epidermis is shrinking, so the skin gets thinner, so far we have no explanation yet, and we are waiting for the other astronauts to figure out what's going on and maybe to try to figure out how we can protect, how we can help so that this epidermis is not shrinking.

5. Jason Rabinowitz:

   Economy seats are on a downward trend, but airlines are adding in perks to make you forget more quickly just how squeezed in you are, the more seats are shrinking, the more technology they're packing in.

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