shrank
/ʃɹæŋk/ noun C2- A large highly decorative German/Dutch-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.
Plural shranks
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Anne laid her hat and jacket away, and shrank miserably into a corner.
They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the woodbox with a boot in one hand and a bootjack in the other, and he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.
"I gripped the old man by the shoulder, but he shrank away.
He said a few stern words in Dutch and my persecutor shrank away.
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