Synonyms for shrinking
shrink·ing

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1. shrinking

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

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

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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. • Decrease

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1. shrinkingadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrinking":

   contraction, narrowing, shrinkage, dwindling, stricture, declining, decreasing, diminishing, reduction, decrease, reducing

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How to use shrinking in a sentence?

1. Edward Knotek:

   If I had to guess I would think that an improving labor market, shrinking slack, should put upward pressure on wages. But when you go to the data and the statistics, that hasn't always been the case, we should be cautious thinking that we know more than we do about wage growth.

2. Tommy Xie:

   We think China is unlikely to engineer 25% depreciation to counter the impact of tariff as the cost of capital outflows amid the shrinking current account surplus may outweigh the benefit of supporting export, the pressure on RMB depreciation may depend on three near-term factors including the size of China's retaliation package, U.S.'s plan to impose tariff on the remaining $325 billion products and market's assessment on whether the setback is temporary or not.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.

4. 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.

5. 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 ?