Dictionary Definition
shrink n : a physician who specializes in
psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker]
Verb
1 wither, especially with a loss of moisture;
"The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up,
wither]
2 draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched
when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]
3 reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water
will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn:
reduce]
4 become smaller or draw together; "The fabric
shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]
5 decrease in size, range, or extent; "His
earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before
me" [syn: shrivel]
[also: shrunken,
shrunk, shrank]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'ʃɻɪŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Verb
Translations
intransitive: to contract, to become smaller
- German: schrumpfen
- Japanese: 縮む, 縮まる
- Korean: 움츠러지다 (umcheureojida)
- Portuguese: encolher, contrair
transitive: to cause something to shrink
(intransitive)
- German: schrumpfen
- Japanese: 縮める, 縮小する, 短縮する
- Korean: 움츠리다 (umcheurida)
intransitive: to attempt to avoid an unwanted or
intimidating duty
- ttbc Dutch: krimpen
- ttbc Esperanto: ŝrumpi, malkreskiĝi
- ttbc French: rétrécir, diminuer, rapetisser
- ttbc Indonesian: menyusut, mengerut, mengkerut, menciut
- ttbc Romanian: a se contracta, a se micsora, a se diminua, a intra la apa
- ttbc Spanish: encoger
Noun
- A psychiatrist or therapist, also referred to as a head-shrinker.
Translations
psychiatrist r therapist
- Dutch: psychiater
- Esperanto: psikologo
- French: psychiatre , psychanalyste , psy
- German: Psychiater, Psychologe
- Japanese: 精神科医 (seishin-ka-i)
- Korean: 정신과의사 (jeongsin-gwa-ui-sa)
- Portuguese: psiquiatra, psicólogo
- Russian: психиатр
- Spanish: siquiatra m|f, sicólogo
Extensive Definition
Shrink can refer to:
- "Shrink", a slang term for a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist or psychologist (derived from the word "headshrinker")
- Shrinkage (accounting), a retail term for the money lost by undercharged, damaged, or stolen goods
- Shrink (album), the fourth album by German indie rock/electronica group The Notwist
- Shrink, a Yu-Gi-Oh card, recently printed in the TCG as a Shonen Jump Championship promo
- Shrink (Experiment 001), an experiment from Lilo & Stitch
- Shrink (Slade), the sixth book in the Special X series by Michael Slade, also known as Primal Scream
- Shrink (mathematics), one type of transformation in which the size or amount is reduced, for example (x/3, y/3)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Sanforize, abate, ablate, about the bush, ache, agonize, ail, analyst, anguish, attenuate, avoid, avoid the limelight, balk
at, bate, be eaten away,
beat around, beg the question, behavior therapist, blanch, blench, blink, blush unseen, boggle, clinical psychologist,
compress, concentrate, condense, constrict, consume, consume away, contract, corrode, cower, cringe, crouch, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, demur, deplete, depreciate, desiccate, die away, diminish, dissipate, dive, dodge, drain, draw back, draw in, dribble
away, drift away, droop,
drop, drop off, dry up,
duck, dwindle, ebb, emacerate, emaciate, equivocate, erode, evade, fade, fade away, fall, fall away, fall back, fall
off, fall short, falter,
feel pain, feel the pangs, fence, fight shy of, flag, flinch, funk, go, go away, grimace, hang back, hang off,
have a misery, have qualms, headshrinker, hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, huddle, hurt, hypnotherapist, jib, languish, lessen, let up, macerate, make bones about,
melt away, move away, move off, narcotherapist, parch, parry, pause, pine, plummet, plunge, pound, preshrink, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalyzer, psychotherapeutist,
psychotherapist,
pull away, pull back, pull in, pull out, pussyfoot, put off, quail, recede, recoil, reel back, retire, retract, retreat, retrocede, run low, sag, scruple, sear, sheer off, shift, shift off, shoot, shrink back, shrink from,
shrinker, shrivel, shrivel up, shy, shy at, shy away, shy off,
sidestep, sink, slink, smart, squander, squinch, stand off, start, start aside, start back,
step aside, stick at, stickle, strain, subside, suffer, swerve, tail off, thin, thrill, throb, tingle, turn aside, twinge, twitch, wane, ward off, waste, waste away, waver, weaken, wear, wear away, weasel, weasel out, weazen, widen the distance,
wilt, wince, withdraw, withdraw from,
wither, wizen, writhe