Synonyms for shrink
ʃrɪŋkshrink

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1. shrinknoun

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

   Antonyms:
   stretch, enlarge, grow, expand

2. shrinknoun

   To contract, to (cause to) become smaller.

   Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, / That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt.

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

   Antonyms:
   grow, stretch, expand, enlarge

3. shrinkverb

   To cower or flinch.

   Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

   Antonyms:
   stretch, enlarge, expand, grow

4. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   funk, shirk

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1. shrink

   Synonyms:
   contract, shrivel, withdraw, retire, recoil, revolt

   Antonyms:
   stretch, expand, dilate, venture, dare

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1. psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrinkverb

   a physician who specializes in psychiatry

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker, headhunter, psychiatrist

   Antonyms:
   stretch

2. shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, witherverb

   wither, as with a loss of moisture

   "The fruit dried and shriveled"

   Synonyms:
   wince, shrivel, fade, flinch, recoil, shrivel up, squinch, quail, contract, wither, reduce, funk, cringe

   Antonyms:
   stretch

3. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

   draw back, as with fear or pain

   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

   Synonyms:
   rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, flinch, funk, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, cringe, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawn

   Antonyms:
   stretch

4. shrink, reduceverb

   reduce in size; reduce physically

   "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

   Synonyms:
   wither, bring down, decoct, slim down, quash, boil down, foreshorten, quail, trim down, thin out, cut, funk, trim back, trim, slenderize, cut down, flinch, tighten, wince, shrivel up, abridge, reduce, recoil, contract, melt off, subdue, scale down, cringe, concentrate, thin, deoxidize, subjugate, dilute, shorten, slim, shrivel, squinch, come down, deoxidise, abbreviate, cut back, keep down, lose weight, repress

   Antonyms:
   stretch

5. shrink, contractverb

   become smaller or draw together

   "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"

   Synonyms:
   shorten, sign, condense, concentrate, sign up, abbreviate, shrivel up, constrict, narrow, quail, flinch, funk, take, shrivel, undertake, reduce, cut, cringe, abridge, squeeze, get, compress, contract, sign on, wince, foreshorten, recoil, squinch, wither, press, compact

   Antonyms:
   stretch

6. shrink, shrivelverb

   decrease in size, range, or extent

   "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, wince, shrivel, flinch, quail, shrivel up, squinch, contract, wither, reduce, funk, cringe

   Antonyms:
   stretch

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   shrivel, contract, decrease, dwindle, wither

2. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   recoil, blench, flinch, withdraw, swerve, draw back, give way, lack courage or resolution

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1. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle, flinch, recoil, blench, wince, winch

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrink":

   therapist, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, reduce, analyst, psych, shrug

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1. Owlstone Medical Billy Boyle:

   Historically chemical analyzers take up half the size of a room and cost half a million dollars. So what we've been able to do is use microchip technology to shrink it down from these massive devices to something about the size of a button. And once it's in that form factor, you can build it directly into these disease breathalyzer technologies.

2. Kamala Harris:

   By taking these steps we can shrink the wealth gap between black and white households by at least one third.

3. Jamie Clark:

   The perpetrators of 2008 still need to pay a penance and must shrink balance sheets in so doing, we read job cuts as only one sign of the secular, rather than cyclical trend to permanently smaller banks.

4. Aimee Ramos-Price:

   In England they seemed to be picking random numbers [and] hoping it would make a difference, hoping it would shrink it, but it didn’t make a difference, they then offered steroids but I didn’t think it would be right giving a baby steroids— I was against it.

5. Mike Scioscia:

   Today we were able to shrink the field.