Definition of Shrink

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Shrink

To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.

To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.

To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.

To draw back; to withdraw.

The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.

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Shrink Quotations

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey

Shrink Translations

shrink in Afrikaans is ineenkrimp
shrink in Dutch is ineenkrimpen, ineenkronkelen
shrink in German is einschrumpfen, schrumpfen, schrumpfe
shrink in Italian is restringere
shrink in Spanish is mermar
shrink in Swedish is krympa, skrumpna

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