shrink
/ˈʃɹɪŋk/ noun B2- Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
- A psychiatrist or psychotherapist. · You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.· My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
- Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
Plural shrinks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle.
But there, _she_ wouldn’t shrink from adopting a whole orphan asylum if she took it into her head.”
Instantly the wicked woman gave a loud cry of fear, and then, as Dorothy looked at her in wonder, the Witch began to shrink and fall away.
“I knew you would not shrink at the last,” said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen.
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