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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. Hidenori Sakanaka:

   The government insists it is not adopting an immigration policy, but whatever the word, faced with a shrinking population, it is changing its former stance and has begun to move toward a real immigration policy.

2. Allison Moore:

   No matter how hard President Obama tries to set Hillary Clinton up to run for his third term, his tax and spend agenda continues to fail America’s shrinking middle class.

3. Chris Terry:

   It's a mature company that already has broad distribution and its customer base is shrinking because department stores are shrinking.

4. Barack Obama:

   We know that human activity is changing the climate, we know that human ingenuity can do something about it. We're even starting to see that we might actually have the political will to succeed. So the time to heed the critics and cynics is past. The time to plead ignorance is surely past. The deniers are increasingly alone, on their own shrinking island.

5. Hiroyuki Sakaida:

   The top five trading firms may write down a total of about 630 billion yen in net impairment losses on their resource assets this business year, their spending on upstream assets will be shrinking.